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Volume II. CONTENTS 


EDITORIAL 
Saskatchewan Elevator Situation - - - : 
The Proper Course - - - - - - - 
Eastern Opinion on Elevators — - - - - 


SPECIAL ARTICLES 
Spoiling the Farmer, by John F. Coggswell = - 
The White Stag, by Wm. J. Long - - - 
Protection, the Curse of Canada, by J. A. Stevenson 
Canada’s Grand Old Man - - - - - 


MAIL BAG 
Lamb vs. Steel, by W. D. Lamb - - - - 
Our Tariff Troubles, by Charles A. Dunning : 
Build H. B. R. at Once, by W. H. Lawrence - 
Wants Farmers’ Party, by Frederick Kirkham - 


DEPARTMENTS 
Alberta Section (Official Circular No. 5) . - 
Saskatchewan Section (The Elevator Commission) 
Manitoba Section (Provincial Crop Report) — - - 
Grain Growers’ Sunshine Guild - - - - 
Around the Fireside (Home Dressmaking) - 
News of the World” - - - - - - 
Grain, Livestock and Produce Markets - - - 


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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


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it is Every Man's Privilege to carry his own risk and save the insur- 
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LOCAL AGENTS in all districts 


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June 15th, 1910 


BINDER TWINE 
CO-OPERA TION 


IGHT thousand farmers at Brantford desire all 
Grain Growers’ Sub-Associations to write or tele- 
graph us night letter message, “Special Rate,” 

instantly for carload rates of 12 tons or more on Binder 
Twine, every ball guaranteed. We protect you against 
hailstorms or drought. Apply for samples—don’t delay. 
As farmers your duty is very plain. You must stand for 
the Grain Growers—the Grange—this great company and 
co-operation collectively if you expect to win out, other- 
wise you will be helplessly lost, no matter how good your 
crops. Advertising for tenders locally from our opponents 
as no game and will not demonstrate to advantage. We 
are placing a million dollars’ worth of our binder twine 
with you at actual cost. Prefer you to take the time 
instead of paying us cash. There must be no corral of 
this Canadian market; we are fighting desperately for 
you. Weare up against nearly everything in sight and 
bucking hundreds of million of dollars of capital. Surely 
you must understand the situation. Don’t confuse the 
Company. If you want to do departmental store business 
with us on Binder Twine or any other article send your 
money direct to Brantford. We are manufacturers ; we 
don’t, however, advise it. Someone must be paid for 
soliciting, distributing, collecting and looking after the 
shipments. Of course our opponents will quote our 
prices on binder twine and sell for even less, anything to 
unhorse this Company. Rise like men to the occasion 
and give us the benefit of your undivided lovalty. We 
smashed the Twine and Fibre Combine twenty years ago 
with their forty millions of capital, and have held down 
prices on twine ever since. We are today largely prevent- 

tng a corral of all Canadian’ manufacturing interests, 
which you ought to understand and rise to the occasion 
collectively and separately as farmers’ organizations. 
Every ball of the Company’s twine will be branded with 
our Manager’s name. 


Farmers’ Binder Twine Co. Ltd. 


BRANTFORD 
JOSEPH STRATFORD - General Manager 


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“Do you tell'your neigh- 
bors who are non-subscri- 
bers about The Guide and 
the aggressive fight fwhich 
it is carrying on, on behalf 
of the farmers of the 
West? Do you tell them 
that there is not a single 
move made by those op- 
posed to the farmers’ in- 
terests of which you are 
not immediately apprised 
through the columns of The 
Guide? Do you tell them 
that almost the only way 
they can secure the bulk of 
this information is through 
The Guide? Do you 
illustrate this by special 
examples, such as the ex- 
posure of ‘Observer,’ the 
Indictment of the Termin- 
al Elevator Companies, 
etc.?2 Don't you think 
that if you were to put 
these and similar facts 
before your neighbors you 
could secure at least a 
dozen new subscribers for 
*The Guide in your im- 
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Shall the People of the West Co-operate so as 
to Buy Together and for Cash? 


The inevitable reorganization in villages and towns—the opportunity of 


the friends of co-operation. 


By E. A. PARTRIDGE 


The rapid and’ inevitable extinction of 
the individual trader 


NYONE who has carefully 
watched the trend of present 
day business, must realize that 


it has been moving rapidly in 
F the direction of concentration 
n the hands of a few great corporations. 
The elaboration of the joint stock company 
idea has so simplified the work of consoli- 
dating business for the purpose of effecting 
economies in operation, the despoiling 
of weaker competitors, or the securing 
of the unrighteous gains of monopoly, 
as to make the long continued existence 
of the small independent trader, as well 
as the small independent manufacturer, 
already nearly extinct, an utter impossi- 
bility. 

Whether we deplore the fact or not, 
the fact remains that the small independ- 
ent trader is doomed to extinction. 
The corporation form of business is too 
strong for him. He must merge his busi- 
ness with some large aggregation, thereby 
losing individual control, or sell out, 
in which case he must change his occu- 
pation or become the employee, on salary 
or commission, of some corporate body: 
otherwise keener and keener competition 
ending in bankruptcy. 


How the Local Dealer is Handicapped 


The lot of the local dealer in the 
majority of cases is not an enviable one. 
For the most part the traders doing busi- 
ness in the villages and small towns 
throughout the West, ‘whether they be 
dealing in fuel, building materials, im- 
plements, hardware, or conducting a 
general store business, are men of small 
means, unable to buy in large quantities 
or pay cash for their goods, and often not 
even owners of the premises which they 
occupy. These circumstances, it may be 
remarked in passing, do not prevent them, 
as a class, from boasting how they have 
carried their customers over hard years, 
and denouncing the ingratitude of those 
who, believing the cost of carriage was 
amply provided for in the price charged, 
are casting about for a cheaper and more 
direct credit than that supplied by the 
banks at fourth hand, that is to say, 
through the manufacturer, the whole- 
saler and the local dealer, with a margin 
for profit and risk for each of them and 
so on down to the customer. Instead 
of lessening the wholesaler’s risk by their 
presence between him and the consumer 
they actually increase it on account 
of their lack of property which could be 


made the basis of security, and this added © 


risk is provided for by an increase in the 
price of the goods, which falls on the con- 
sumer. 

Inability to buy for cash and in large 
quantities or to furnish personal security 
results in inability to sell at a reasonable 
figure. The cutting up of the trade of 
a town into so many classes of business, 
as well as the fact that the increase of 
railway lines has reduced the territory 
of the majority of towns without lessening 
the number of traders in each, has made 
it impossible for them to live without 
charging more than the consumer should 
be compelled to pay. The large mail 
order stores are causing a great reduction 
in the volume of their trade and the 
percentage of cash sales, while the growing 
hoggishness of those manufacturers who 
enjoy a monopoly and consequently are 
able to fix the margin of profit to the dealer 
on their goods at a very low figure, is 
handicapping them still further. The 
cutting up of business among so many, 
the loss in volume of trade by shrinkage 
in territory and the competition of the 
mail order houses, with the increasing 
tendency of customers to combine in 
the sending of orders direct to the manu- 
facturers, forces the dealers from time to 
time to advance by agreement the price 
of certain staples. This gives temporary 
relief but in the end results in a still 
further loss of trade. It is in fact slow 
suicide. The desperate and so far suc- 
cessful attempt of the Retail Dealers’ 
Association to prevent the passage of 
bills to render the formation of co-opera- 


tive purchasing groups easy of accomplish» 
ment, shows how unstable is the position 
of the local dealer to-day. 


Reorganization of Local Business Nec- 
essary and Inevitable 


Something must be done and done 
speedily, The dealers are going behind ; 
dead stock is accumulating; poorer ser- 
vice is necessarily rendered, and all the 
time the cost of that service, measured 
in prices charged, continues to advance 
more and more alienating their customers. 
Still the local distributing agency must be 
continued and the local stocks maintained 
im some way, no matter what the cost 
to the community. The question is not 
how reorganization can be evaded, but 
by what means can a reorganization, 
in the best interests of the community 
be effected. 


The Essential Features of a Satisfactory 
Reorganization 


Stated in general terms the essentials 
of satisfactory reorganization are efficien- 
cy of service, a large reduction in cost, 
and the improvement of human relation- 
ships from a moral point of view in the 
transaction of business. 

Taken in detail they would embrace 
the following: 

(a) Reduction of the number of per- 
sons engaged in business in any town 
to the lowest point consistent with fair 
play for the persons employed on the one 
hand, and satisfactory service to the 
community on the other. This would 
involve having only one of each kind of 
business in a place and the consolidation 
of the various kinds by making them 
departments of a single business under 
a general manager. 

(b) Purchase of supplies in large 
quantities and for cash. This would re- 
quire the undivided patronage of the local 


business of the community within which . 


it is located and which it has been estab- 
lished to serve; also co-operation in buying 
with similar businesses in larger or smaller 
groups of towns, in some cases a sort of 
modern Hanseatic League against the 
brigands of commerce. Ability to pay 
cash would be dependent upon the ar- 
rangement of a system of credits with the 
local banks, to be extended, first, to the 
centralized business to buy supplies with, 
and second, to its customers guaranteed 
where necessary by the assets of the 
business, so as to enable them to buy 
upon a cash basis throughout the year. 
This system of credits will be ex- 
plained at length further on, it being only 
necesary to remark in passing that the 
plan presupposes that a large number of 
the community shall have a financial 
interest in the reorganized business 
which is herein dealt with. 


(c) The correspondence of the stock 
of goods purchased with the demand 
both as to quantity and quality. This 
requires that the customers make known 
their wants to the manager of the business 
before the time of ordering goods, also 
that their intention to take those goods 
and their ability to pay for them be known 
in advance. This assumes membership 
of customers in a co-operative enterprise, 
giving assurance of honest treatment 
on the one hand and loyalty and a pre- 
arranged guaranteed credit at the bank 
on the other, It would also involve some 


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plan whereby articles, the sale of which 
depends upon their appeal to the taste of 
the purchaser, would be procured through 
the service of an expert buyer at some 
large centre where a considerable range 
of choice was possible, and not kept in 
the local stock. 


‘(d) Community of interest between 
the business managers and the customers 
operating to remove all desire to practice 
deception or take advantage of ignorance. - 
To effect this the manager must have no 
further financial or commercial interest 
than to receive a fixed per cent. on in- 
vestment of capital aid x fixed salary 
for personal services having a proper 
relation to their value. 


Reorganization Without Needless 
Sacrifice ; 


Assuming that reorganization is only 
a matter of time and that it - means the 
extinguishment of the individual trader, 
it would appear desirable that the re- 
organization should occur in such a manner 
as would cause the least disturbance 
and hardship in effecting the change. 


Combination or Co-operation—Which? 


This change is threatening to be brought 
about by the pressure of corporate com- 
petition and when consummated would 
find the small trader ruined and the whole 
community in the grip of a widespread 
commercial monopoly. It is possible to 
bring it about by the gentler means 
of purchase by co-operative groups 
composed of the traders themselves and 
their customers organized under the joint 
stock company system and where as 
many of the traders as are needed and 
are competent will manage the various 
departments of the business on salary, while 
the remainder will seek other means of 
livelihood. A scheme is already,,taking 
form to aid in a systematic way, the 
creation and multiplication ..of , such,,co- 
operative groups on a uniform,plan. jj jain 

EDITOR’S NOTE:—In the next issue Mr. 


Partridge will outline the details of a system of 
co-operative storesjand ajplan for,its-creation. ;. 


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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ 


Saskatchewan Elevator Commission 


During the past week the Saskatchewan 
Elevator Commission has been sitting in 
Regina, most of their time being taken up 
by an inspection of books submitted by 
various elevator companies. The books 
submitted have been principally from 
farmers’ elevator companies and are in 
the hands of skilled auditors. 

This session of the commission is a 
departure from the programme arranged, 
it having been the intention to go into 
the northern part of the province and open 
a session at Saskatoon. However, in 
so many cases statements were made 
as to the successful manner in which 
the farmers’ elevator companies were 
conducted that it was decided to find 
out the real facts with regard to these 
companies. 

One manager of an elevator on the 
Arcola line, which has been doing a big 
and profitable business refused to set the 
information desired before the commis- 
sion and the result was that he was told 
in no uncertain language by the chair- 
man that the commissioners had a right 
to the information and the power to force 
it to be laid before them. The result 
was that an extension of time was made 
to give an opportunity to have the books 
of the company submitted. 

The books of the following farmers’ 
elevator companies have been submitted 
to and examined by the commission: 
Buffalo, Tuxford, Caron, Carnduff, Gren- 
fell, Kisbey, Regina, Sintaluta, McAra, 
Condie, Arcola, and Indian Head. Of 
these it is stated that only one which 
showed tangible profits from its operations 
was that-of Arcola. An auditor from the 
government auditing department is en- 
gaged upon the work of going through the 
books of the farmers’ elevator companies 
and it will take possibly another week to 
finally classify the results. 

By far the most important testimony 
that the commission has yet received 
was that of William Noble, of Oxbow, 
given Thursday. Mr. Noble, who asked 


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NOTICE 


URSUANT to resolution of the Directors of 
the Grain Growers’ Grain Company, 
Limited, Notice is hereby given that the 

Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the said 
Company will be held at the Trades Hall, 
Corner of James and Louise Streets, at the City 
of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, on 
Thursday, July 14th, A.D. 1910, at the hour 
of 10 a.m., for the consideration of the Re ore 
oar 


of the year’s business, the Election of a 
of Directors for the ensuing year, and passing 


any necessary By-laws, and such further 
business as may properly be bionght before the 
Meeting. . K. MILLS, 


Winnipeg, May 31st, 1910 Sec.-Treasurer, 


for protection before giving his evidence’ 
stated that it was a common practice 
of elevator companies to use a double 
weight system whereby farmers were very 
generally defrauded. He, himself, he 
stated, as manager of the Dominion 
elevator, had been instructed to fake the 
weights and rather than do so he had 
resigned. He complained, in connection 
with grading that instances frequently 
occurred where wheat was unjustly graded 
by the governmnet inspector, though in 
answer to the chairman, Prof. Magill, 
he stated that he would not go so far as 
to say that the inspector, Mr. Horn, had 
an axe of his own to grind in the matter. 

Coming to the question of a remedy 
for the existing grievances Mr. Noble 
advocated a government system of ele- 
vators managed by a commission ap- 
pointed by the Grain Growers’ Associa- 
tion. He was adverse to a government 
monopoly, believing the government sys- 
tem should be in competition with the 
line elevators. Touching upon the finan- 
cial side of the question, Mr. Noble stated 
that to provide government elevators 
at the 300 shipping points now located 
in the province would call for an expendi- 
ture of about $4,500,000. This money, 
he considered, it was up to the government 
to find. If there was a deficit in the work- 
ing of the system, the government should 
meet it. He did not believe in asking the 
farmers to give any sort of a guarantee 
that they would patronize the government 
elevators, 

In answer to Prof. Magill, Mr. Noble 
admitted that in the by-laws of — the 
farmers’ elevator at Oxbow, there was a 
penalty clause which imposed a penalty 
of 1384 cents upon the farmers shipping 
their grain through any other elevators. 
He himself drafted the by-laws three years 
ago, but since that time he had changed 
his mind. His reason for inserting the 
penalty clause in question was that he 
felt certain the line elevators would cut 
their rates as soon as the farmers’ elevators 
started operations, 

F. C. Tate, M.L.A., outlined a com- 
promise scheme before the commission, 
Friday. Mr. Tate’s scheme follows: 

1. That the government establish 
weigh scales at all shipping points to 
be under the control of an appointee 
of the government, thus providing for 
the protection of the farmer from loss 
by the receiving of false weight. 

2. That the government provide stor- 
age facilities at all shipping points where 
they would be required for the use of 
farmers living at a distance from the 
station to store their grain until they 
have enough at the station to fill a car. 
The object of this is to do away with the 
necessity which farmers at a distance 
from the stations, have of selling their 
grain to elevators whether they want to 
do so or not. 

3. That the use of the economy cleaner 
be advocated. This machine costs about 
from $200 to $300 and can be attached to 
a threshing machine in the field. Al- 
though it is hardly out of the experimental 
stages yet it is believed that it will clean 
grain so well as to do away with the neces- 
essity of having the grain cleaned at the 
elevator. 

4. That this plan be put into force 
for about two years, pending the trial of 
the Manitoba government-owned elevators 

5. Besides the foregoing assistance, 
that another provision be made whereby 
the government should undertake to loan 
money to the farmers for a farmers’ 
elevator when they are asked to do so. 

With regard to government ownership 
Mr. Tate stated, there was, speaking of 
his own district, a very great diversion 
of opinion and he believed the same 
held good throughout the province. He 
considered that the only solution which 
would be generally acceptable would be 
in the nature of a compromise. Without 
committing himself or the commission 
to an acceptance of his scheme, Prof. 
Magill, intimated to Mr. Tate that so 
far as the investigation had been carried 
his suggestion of a compromise appeared 
to be suited to remedy existing grievances. 

Wm. Noble was further cross-examined 
Friday, but said nothing to change 
the tone of his former evidence. 

On Monday next the commission will 
sitin Prince Albert, and on Wednesday, 
June 22 at Kamsack, and on Friday at 
North Battleford. Next week the first 
meeting will be held at Rosetown on 
Tuesday, June 28, and they will hold 
meetings at Saskatoon on Wednesday 


GUIDE 


June 15th, 1910 


Winnipeg Industrial 
EXHIBITION 


Entries in all Departments Close positively June 30th 


Every Progressive Grain Grower, Stock Breeder, or Dairy- 
man in the West should have a part in the magnificent 
showing that is to be made here this year. 


Prizes Total 


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Especially liberal with Cattle, Horses and Wheat 


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be ‘at Lanigan on Friday. The third 
week meetings will be held at Lanigan, 
Hamley and Lumsden, the exact dates 
for which have not yet been decided on 
account of the inability to get the train 
schedule which will be in force at that 
time. 

The commissioners will then go to 
Winnipeg, where they intend to interview 
representatives of head offices, of banks 
and elevator companies and_ railways, 
and also to get evidence from the Domin- 
ion grain inspection department. After 


and Thursday, June 29 and 30, and wil \ completing their investigations at Winni- 


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Grain Growers’ executive will take place. 
In so far as is known at present this will 
conclude the work of the commission so 
far as the hearing of evidence is concerned. 
Notices of dates of the meetings are being 
sent by the commission to the newspapers, 
the Grain Growers’ Association at Prince 
Albert, and notices are also being wired 
to Kamsack and Rosetown, as the com- 
mission is anxious that the dates of the 
meetings should be given the greatest 
possible publicity. 


June 15th, 1910 


Grain 
Growers’ 


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JUNE 15th, 1910 


SASKATCHEWAN ELEVATOR SITUATION 


In the evidence which has been heard by 
the elevator commission in Saskatchewan 
there seems to be a number of different schemes 
recommended by various witnesses. After 
reading over a summary of the evidence we 
see that the chief recommendations simmer 
down to three. There is first a scheme for 
public ownership of the internal elevators in 
the province with sample market facilities 
much similar to that advocated and urged upon 
their government by the Grain Growers of 
Manitoba; then there is some support in favor 
of a system of farmers’ elevators assisted to 
a greater or less extent from the public treasury, 
and, thirdly, (and this scheme has been spoken 
of quite frequently) it is urged in some quarters 
that the government should appoint a com- 
mission which should not only have control 
of the public elevators but should also go into 
the grain business and take full charge of the 
farmers’ grain from the time it leaves the 
separator until it is delivered to the ultimate 
consumer. 

After a careful study of the three proposed 
systems it does not seem to us that the three 
are equally feasible, or if they were that they 
would be equally satisfactory in results to the 
producer. Any contemplated system of public 
storage which in its ultimate aim falls short 
of providing a system so satisfactory that it 
will sooner or later result in a practical mono- 
poly, we think would not give the required 
relief to the farmers. Frankly, we confess 
that the first scheme above mentioned is the 
one which appeals to us as the most feasible. 
It is the general principle as laid down by 
the Grain Growers all over the West for some 
years back. Saskatchewan is a _ province 
containing a vast grain growing territory 
and the future will shortly see several hundred 
tillion bushels exported annually from that 
- province. If the results of the enquiry now 
being made by the elevator commission 
shows the demands for public elevators to be 
general then the government would be justified 
in taking hold of the matter with the intention 
of placing elevators throughout the province 
under public control and under an independent 
commission. With a sample market which 
would probably be established in Winnipeg, 
Saskatchewan grain would then be sold in open 
competition. No doubt there would be some in 
favor of a sample market in Saskatchewan, 
but it is generally conceded that a centralized 
market affords more real competition. Millers 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


would not care to have expert buyers both at 
Winnipeg, and, say, at Moose Jaw, when the 
same work could be done at one point at a 
minimum of expense. A sample market at 
Winnipeg could not militate against a milling 
industry in Saskatchewan. In fact it would 
benefit it. A farmer ten miles from Moose 
Jaw would place his grain in the public elevator 
and a sample of it would be exposed on the 
sample market. The representative of the 
Moose Jaw miller would be able to pick from 
the entire grain shipments of the West and if 
he liked the sample near at home he could have 
the wheat sent to his mill at once without 
having it shipped east and then back again. 
This same system of a centralized market 
would obviate the necessity of the milling 
companies retaining their own internal eleva- 
tors. If one expert in Winnipeg could buy all 
the necessary wheat for the mills, then the 
milling companies would not care to keep a 
large number of less capable buyers at their 
elevators. It would be poor business. One 
fully competent expert would perform for the 
milling company a much more valuable func- 
tion than would a large staff of much less com- 
petent men. The milling companies would be 
glad to sell their elevators. 

In Saskatchewan the Grain Growers’ Asso- 
ciation as yet has made no formal presentation 
of a case to the commission. But we under- 
stand that it is to be done before the com- 
mission reports. Judging from the action 
of the Saskatchewan Association in the past 
the executive will probably find that its mem- 
bers will be in support of the principles which we 
have outlined. 

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THE PROPER COURSE 


At a regular meeting of the Empire branch 
of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association 
on June 7ththe following resolution was 
unanimously adopted: 

“That, we, the members of the Empire branch 
of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, protest 
against the government holding a general election 
this summer, as it is in our interest as Grain Growers 
to see the system of government owned elevators 
put into operation before being called upon to cast 
our ballot.” 

This is a very commendable action on the 
part of this association, and it shows that they 
are not making any political question out of 
the elevator problem. We believe that they 
are asking what is only fair and right, that 
no election should be called until the elevator 
commission has been given an opportunity 
to provide elevators in Manitoba. We have 
voiced our sentiments upon this very clearly, 
and will leave it to our readers. 


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EASTERN OPINIONS ON ELEVATORS 


The Daily Toronto World under the cap- 
tion of “Government Ownership of Terminal 
Elevators” published the following editorial 
statement on June 4th: 


“Fortunately for themselves the Western wheat 
farmers have early learned the value of acting 
together in defense of their common interests. 
More particularly in the case of the terminal 
elevator has co-operative action for the detection 
of wrongful methods, both directly and indirectly 
prejudicial to the pocket and credit of the Grain 
Growers been productive of good result. For some 
considerable time there has been grave reason to 
believe that the elevator companies have not been 
giving the farmers a square deal. As a result of 
the agitation and in consequence of information 
supplied by the inspection department of the federal 
department of trade and commerce, an official 
investigation was instituted by Mr. C. C. Castle, 
warehouse commissioner, and his report appears in 
full in last week’s issue of Tux Grain Growers’ 
GuIpp. 

“The immediate charge was that there were 
serious decrepancies in returns of terminal elevator 
companies’ reports as compared with those of the 
inspection department covering the same periods. 
No satisfactory explanation was given by the com- 
panies except in the case of the C. P. R., who had 
their records carefully checked with those of the 
department. Only clerical errors were found, 
and the matter so far as the C. P. R. was concerned 
was dropped. The investigation, however, pro- 
ceeded against the other three companies, and it 
warranted the laying of informations against them, 


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the police proceedings resulting in the infliction of 
fines, one of $50, another of $2500 and the third of 
$3000. In substance the charges involved over- 
shipments of No. 1 grade, the inference being that 
mixing of grades had occurred, thus injuring the 
reputation of choice Canadian wheat in the Liver- 
pool market. 

“These revelations and the general dissatisfaction 
prevailing over private running of the terminal 
elevators have instigated a demand for their being 
taken over by the Dominion government and oper- 
ated under a commission that will be free from 
political control. The World is entirely favorable 
to that contention, which is in line with the policy 
calling for public ownership and control of common 
utilities and the means of carrying out what are 
really national responsibilities. Experience all over 
this continent has shown that private parties cannot 
be trusted to give a square deal except under such 
a measure of supervision as amounts to in effect 
public operation, It is of national importance 
that the grading of wheat be thoroughly reliable, 
and that the grain exported be exactly what it is 
represented to be. In this connection it is significant 
that the elevator interests attempted to kill the 
movement for government ownership by securing 
the publication in the press, at advertising rates, 
of a series of letters signed ‘Observer,’ written 
to their order by a salaried press agent. This kind 
of thing has been done in Ontario by public service 
companies, but the people everywhere are getting 
wise to the trick. Manitoba has already provided 
for provincially-owned elevators, and the other 
wheat-growing provinces will do well to follow its 
example.” 

The Toronto World sees the disadvantage 
of private ownership and the need of the gov- 
ernment taking action. The cause of Western 


farmers is gaining favor. 
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FAVOR MEETING LAURIER 


The plan arranged for presenting the pro- 
blems of the Western Grain Growers to Sir 
Wilfrid Laurier on his Western trip, is meeting 
with general favor. Suggestions are reaching 
us from all parts of the West that the directors 
in meeting Sir Wilfrid should be backed up by 
a strong delegation. This is certainly a good 
scheme, and if the directors of each province 
were supported by a delegation from other 
parts of the province it would lend strength 
to them in presenting their case to Sir Wilfrid. 
It is to be hoped that Sir Wilfrid will be able 
to give some definite reply to the demands of 
the Western farmers. Generally when a dele- 
gation meets a government the reply given to 
them is, that their recommendation will ‘‘re- 
ceive careful consideration.” 


The Western farmers are not so anxious 
that Sir Wilfrid will give ‘careful’? consider- 
ation, but they want to see him give their 
requests “active” consideration. The West- 
ern farmers will gain nothing unless they will 
go after it in earnest, and give Sir Wilfrid to 
understand that they mean business. If 
he fully understands this then the farmers 
will get something besides the ordinary 
“‘careful consideration.” 


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EARL GREY’S TRIP 


Our retiring governor-general is making 
plans for an overland trip to Hudson’s Bay and 
thence by water to Newfoundland. This 
will afford Earl Grey an opportunity to see the 
great northern country about which so much 
is heard and written but so little known. ‘It 
will give English public opinion a start to 
know that our northland is so mild: in climate 
and so easy of access that a governor-general 
and suite can make the trip without discomfort. 
There is one great feature about the trip. The 
party will not be handicapped by piles of 
material that have not yet been taken up for 
the Hudson Bay Road. Probably Sir Wilfrid 
had this in mind when he failed to make good 
his pre-election promise. He may have known 
how inconvenient it would be for the vice-regal 
party to clamber over construction material. 
His Excellency will appreciate this thoughtful- 
ness on the part of the premier. However, 
as soon as the trip is over there seems tobe no 
reason why the government should not get 
busy and secure at least several more “moun- 
tains of information” about the road to the 
Bay. 


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BETTER LAND TAX SYSTEM 


When will the day come that sees the West- 
ern farmer get a square deal in competition 
with the land speculator.. The difference 
between them is that both pay the same taxes 
on their land. Down east they even fine the 
farmer more heavily. But on the prairie there 
is the improvements that are exempted. 
But this is only a start in the right direction. 
Let us take a concrete example. A speculator 
buys land ten miles from a railway at $5 per 
acre, as he did afew years ago. As time passes 
the farmers come and settle on the adjoining 
land and begin to work it. As the farms im- 
prove the price of land advances. But the 
price on the vacant land held by the speculator 
also advances. If 1,000 acres are held by the 
speculator and the price advances to $20 per 
acre he makes $15,000. But the farmers’ land 
is worth as much or more. Of course, but the 
farmers have made their land valuable by their 
work. Who made the increase in the value 
of the speculators land? The farmers made 
the entire increase by improving their own 
farms. Thus the speculator has farmers 
working to bring him a profit of $15,000. 
But does he give the farmers any benefit from 
it? None at all. The speculator puts all 
his profits in his pocket and walks away to 
live in luxury where he won’t have to work. 
Who is to blame for this? It is the present 
law and it should be improved so that a portion 
of the value created by the community should 
be returned to the community. The only 
way in which such an improvement will be 
secured will be through the efforts of the or- 
ganized farmers. It will require a campaign 
of education but it will be better for the farmers 
in the end. 


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SOME HARD FACTS 


While the tariff is the subject of so much 
discussion it would be well to secure figures that 
strike close home. Farmers should make out 
their yearly expense account in one column. 
Then in another column opposite they could set 
out the amount of duty on each item of their 
purchases. If it should be goods of foreign 
manufacture then the duty went into the 
Dominion treasury. But if the goods were of 
Canadian make the amount of the tariff went 
into the pockets of the protected manufac- 
turers. This system would provide figures 
that the ablest exponent of protection could not 
get by. If any farmers care to go to this 
trouble we shall be glad to publish these figures 
in Toe GuipE and showether farmers what it 
means. 


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WHAT IS THE TROUBLE? 


The preparations for an election in Manitoba 
are going ahead with all speed. Candidates 
are daily being nominated all over the province. 
According to the party papers every man 
nominated is a sure winner. The Winnipeg 
Free Press assures its readers daily that the 
Roblin government is composed of a bunch 
of crooks and that the end of their tether has 
come. It then goes on to show what a large 
number of splendid men there are in the Liberal 
ranks. But the Winnipeg Telegram is there 
to prove the other side. It sets out to show 
that the members of the Roblin government 
are really but little lower than the angels 
and that the Liberals are too crooked to lie 
straight in bed. What a fearful mess of stuff 
to hand out to the people. These two papers 
devote their time to smashing each other and 
whitewashing their own parties, but we can’t 
get the exact truth of affairs from either of 
them. How is the intelligent and patriotic 
man going to decide between the parties? 
He can’t do it by reading the party organs. 
The best way to settle the matter is to hold 
off the election until the elevators have been 
provided and then the people will not need the 
assistance of the party organs to decide upon 
their actions. 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


THEODORE ROOSEVELT 


There seems to be considerable anxiety 
expressed in the United States as to what 
action Theodore Roosevelt will take when he 
returns to his own country next month. There 
is no doubt but that he is far and away the 
biggest man in the United States, and that the 
people are not particularly pleased with the 
man he chose for his successor. The chief 
question on public minds just now is “who will 
be the next president?” There is no doubt 
but that Roosevelt will be elected if he allows 
himself to become a candidate, but no president 
of the United States ever held office for more 
than two terms, and there is an unwritten 
law that none ever shall do so. If Roosevelt 
disregards this precedent and becomes president 
again in 1912, the chances are that he will 
continue being president as long as he likes. 
It is in view of this that many people see a 
great danger. The fear isthat they are 
approaching the road that leads to a form 
of monarchy. It would, therefore, seem to be 
a test of Theodore Roosevelt as to whether he 
loves himself or his country best. 

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NO WORD YET 


We are still wondering what action the 
Winnipeg Grain Exchange is going to take 
towards the terminal elevator manipulators, 
who were found a short time ago breaking the 
law. The rules and regulations of the Grain 
Exchange provide that if any member is con- 
victed of any crime in any court, he can be 
immediately dealt with by the council of the 
Grain Exchange. But what do we see? The 
elevator men are still enjoying themselves 
as though nothing had happened. We under- 
stand that W. L. Parish has been appointed 
to investigate the terminal graft, but what 
Mr. Parish expects to find out is not known. 
There has already been an investigation and 
graft has been proven in large chunks. The 
situation as it now stands leads us to wonder 
whether the rules and regulations of the Winni- 
peg Grain Exchange are a joke or whether the 
entire membership of the Exchange is afraid 
of offending the elevator companies that have 
been working the big graft. Surely this stigma 
is not to be allowed to rest on all the grain 
dealers who are members of the Winnipeg 
Grain Exchange. Where are those pure ones 
who were formerly so loud in shouting the 
virtues of the Exchange. 

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EMBARGO MAY BE LIFTED 


Reports from England indicate that the 
British government may be influenced by the 
high prices of meat to remove the embargo 
on Canadian cattle. The disease which was 
the original cause of the embargo has long 
ceased to be a reason. The present embargo 
does not allow live Canadian cattle to be kept 
in England. They must be slaughtered within 
ten days of arrival. No doubt the removal 
of the embargo will place the live cattle export 
from Canada upon a safer and more remunera- 
tive basis. But it will not solve the problem 
for Canada. What is needed is a system 
whereby a chilled meat export trade will be 
developed with the old country. The live 
stock export trade is always attended by heavy 
losses and shrinkages which would be overcome 
by shipping chilled meat by means of a proper 
refrigerator service. If the Dominion govern- 
ment is anxious to do the right thing for the 
farmers of the West, they should at once adopt 
the recommendations so often made in favor 
of a federal government owned and operated 
chilled meat industry. 

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U. S. TARIFF SCHEME 


A strong agitation is afoot in the United 
States to have the tariff dealt with entirely 
outside of party politics. A great many 
representative business men are holding a 
meeting in Washington this week to urge 
congress to appoint a commission of experts 
to deal with the tariff. Under the last tariff 


June 16th, 1910 


revision a permanent tariff board was created, 
and now it is reported that this board is merely 
aimed to save the scalps of the Republican 
condidates during the congressional election 
this fall. It looks very much as though the 
farmers in the United States were flim-flammed 
and buncoed on the tariff question the same 
as the farmers of Canada. Of course it will 
always be so until the farmers are properly 
organized. 


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The death of Goldwin Smith removes one 
of the most prominent figures in the world 
of literature and independent thought. During 
his long residence in Canada, he afforded an 
example to the public men by the broad- 
minded manner in which he dealt with every 
subject that came to his hand. Goldwin 
Smith was a hard working journalist up till 
less than a year ago. This is a record which 
is probably unequalled, to see a man retain 
his faculties and literary activity so far beyond 
the four score term. Contributions from 
Goldwin Smith’s pen were eagerly sought by 
journals in every part of the English speaking 
world, and there was not a subject of national 
importance with which the “Sage of The 
Grange” was not prepared to deal. He en- 
deared himself to farmers throughout Canada 
by the assistance he rendered to them in their 
organization to secure their rights. Some 
years ago when he advocated annexation 
to the United States he found opposition 
and criticism, but no one accused Goldwin 
Smith of any ulterior motive. Probably the 
strongest feature of Goldwin Smith’s character 
was that he dared to do and say what he be- 
lieved to be right. Such men (as prominent 
as Goldwin Smith) areveryrare. Hehas hada 
remarkable career, and has known the leading 
men of thought throughout the world for the 
past fifty years. He has contributed greatly 
to the world of letters, and his work will live 
after him. It is unfortunate that there are 
not more Goldwin Smiths in the world. 

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The rush of Americans into Western Canada 
continues at an ever-increasing rate. They are 
welcome. Every effort is being made to keep 
them at home by maligning Canada. But the 
letters sent home by happy and contented 
settlers in the Canadian west who have come 
from the States, are factors which cannot be 
offset. We have the goods in the west and the 
American farmers are as shrewd as any class 
of people in the world. They know a good 
thing when they see it and are getting hold 
of it as fast as possible. The boundary line 
is only imaginary and they see no difference 
in living under the Union Jack. 

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The rumor has it that there is to be a big 
change in the management in the affairs 
of the Hudson’s Bay Company. | Cable ad- 
vices from England say that William Mac- 
Kenzie will be one of the new directors, and 
that J. P. Morgan will also have a hand in it. 
It will seem something like sacrilege to the 
old timers of the West if the hands of the 
modern money kings are allowed to be placed 
upon the oldest corporation in Canada. 

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The Saskatchewan Elevator Commission 
is going to take evidence at Winnipeg. It 
would be an interesting thing to have the 
terminal manipulators called as witnesses: to 
explain how their work was accomplished: 

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We remember in the dim past that there 
was a live stock commission appointed by 
the Manitoba government nearly three months 
ago. What has become of it? 


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“How We Made Millions out of the Farm- 
ers,” is the imposing title of the new book 
which we understand is not to be written by 
the Elevator Combine. 


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“Canada for 2,500 Canadians” is the slogan 
of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association. 


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iCheGrainG 


Published every Wednesday at 275-277 Sherbrooke Street, Winnipeg, Canada 
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Vol. II. 


UCH has been written and much 
will yet be written on economic 
problems that involve the real 
necessities of life; on the high cost of 
clothing, the high cost of groceries, and, 
probably more than anything else, on 
the high cost of meat. The subject is 
not a new one. For years the greatest 
of the earth’s economists have been at- 
tacking the problem with unflagging 
zeal. They have approached it from 
every angle. Early reformers  con- 
cerned themselves to a great extent 
to the reduction of the price of produc- 
tion. The cost of production has been 
reduced in a great many instances, but 
the producer failed to realize greater 
profits; the consumer did not get the goods 
any cheaper, rather prices have been 
mounting every year. 
There were greater profits somewhere 


along the course between the producer. 


and the ultimate consumer. Who got 
them? Not the producer nor the con- 
sumer; then somé one of the middlemen, 
or every one of them. Present day 
economists have realized that reducing 
the cost of production will do but little, 
except swell the bank account of some one 
who adds nothing to the value of the goods. 
Thus the conclusion that reduction in 
the cost of living and an improvement 
in the lot of the producer must come 
from an improvement in the system of 
bringing the product to the ultimate 
consumer. 

All are agreed that the meat producing 
industry of Western Canada is open for 
a lot of reform. Many efforts have been 
made to reform it. They have been at- 
tended with practically no results because 
the would-be reformers had nothing better 
than the present system to offer. In 
many cases they gave way to idle rantings 
when sound logic was necessary; have 
contented themselves with attacking the 
present system but have offered no re- 
medy. 


An Ideal System. 


Of course the ideal system of bringing 
one’s meat to the table would concern 
only two parties, viz., the producer. and 
the consumer. A co-operative concern 
among the live stock producers that would 
grow the stock, slaughter, and make it 
ready for retailing; a co-operative con- 
cern among the consumers that would 
establish shops for the distribution of 
meat at cost of handling. That would 
be an ideal condition indeed, but, alas, 
ideal conditions are a long time in work- 
ing out. ‘‘ Rome was not built in a day”’ 
and the meat trade of Western Canada 
will not be reconstructed in a year or 
several years; will never be reconstructed 
unless all concerned take hold now and 
work toward that ideal end; commence 
at the bottom and start to cut out middle- 
men. 

Let us just glance at the present sys- 
tem of marketing. First comes the far- 
mer, who raises the steer, the hog or the 
sheep, as the case may be. Then comes 
the drover who purchases the animals 
from the farmer and brings them to 
market. The drover sells them at the 
stock yards to an abattoir company 
who butchers them and makes the meat 
ready for the retailers block. But it 
don’t always go direct from the abattoir 
to the retailer; there’s another fellow 
butting in there for a‘ profit, though 
the Lord only knows what he has a pro- 
fit coming for. Hats off to the whole- 
sale butcher, the man who gets something 
for nothing. - But there’s no use treating 
him seriously for he’s a fast disappearing 
species; some things the people get tired 
of and he seems to be one of them, most 
of the retailers now buying | direct 


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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th, 1910 


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poiling the Farmer: 
The System followed by too many Farmers in shipping their live stock, 

enables unscrupulous drovers to exact unreasonable profits from their 


business. This Article shows The Abuse and The Remedy. 
By JOHN FRANKLIN COGGSWELL 


fromthe abattoirs. When 
the retailer gets the car- 
cass he makes it ready 
for home use and dispen- 
ses it to the householder. 
Thereare always atleast 
three middlemen in the 
transaction, none of them 
there for the fun of it; 
all after a profit, and 
getting it. At present 
there is no co-operative 
concern to slaughter the 
stock, nor one to retail 
the meat. The best we 
can do with them is to 
hold them downand keep 
them as square as pos- 
sible. Then they do add 
something to the value 
of the product and are 
entitled to a reasonable 
return for so doing. True 
it is, that in most cases 
they get too much for 
this service, but with that 
the consumer is concern- 
ed. Thisarticle will treat 
of one of the abuses the 
remedy for which lies 
with the stock raiser. 
The Farmer’s Friend? 
Fully seventy-five per 
cent. of the stock market- 
ed at Winnipeg is brought 
in by drovers, who buy 
the animals from farmers, 
bring them to the yards 
and seli to the abattoirs, 
needless to say, at a 
profit. They add not a single cent to the 
value of the animal yet make a living 
and a good one off this product of the 
farms. The first step in bringing the pro- 
ducer and the consumer nearer together; 
adding to the profit of the former and 
lessening the cost of living for the latter, 
is the elimination of the drover. 


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I can almost hear the 
how] that every drover 
will raise at such a sug- 
gestion; his protestations 
that he continually loses 
money on his deals and 
that frequently, after 
paying freight on his ship- 
ments he sells them for 
less than he paid for 
them; and that he is al- 
ways at the mercy of the 
abattoirs who lower the 
price just to take his 
money away and _ these 
fluctuations are keeping 
him poor; that he is the 
best friend the farmer 
has, ete. Bosh! 


Here’s a few facts to 
ponder over. Practically 
every one of the drovers 
always sells his shipment 
to the same abattoir com- 
pany. These companies 
are acquainted with the 
capabilities of each drover 
that ships to them regu- 
Jarly and guarantee him 
a certain price for the 
cattle and hogs he brings 
in. When he purchases 
an animal he knows how 
it will grade, and to a 
few cent sper hundred 
pounds, what he 
will get for it. The 
abattoir companies 

., protect him against 
loss, besides’ giving him any increase 
in price the market may have been 
taken over the guaranteee. He knows 
that the abattoirs will have to deal square 
with him, for they must depend upon the 
‘drovers for their supplies, and if they do 
not treat them as they think they should 
be treated, off to another abattoir goes 


wicktrtler I 


LET IT DROP. : 
The United States government propose using the aeroplane for military purposes by dropping high- 


power. explosives from the machine whilst:it is in rapid motion.— 


ews Item. 


This scheme might be worked out nearer home to good advantage, as shown above 


Guide} 


No. 46 


the drover and all the other drovers 
would know about it and practically 
boycott the packer. The abattoirs also 
know this and have so far never given 
the drovers any cause to feel bad. To 
sum it all up briefly; the drover knows 
what he is going to get for his shipment. 
_ But he don’t tell the farmer what he 
is going to get, nor does he allow the far- 
mer to know that he knows what he is 
going to get. When he arrives at the 
farm he is the most pessimistic man you 
ever saw as far as the live stock market 
is concerned. Prices are going to go 
to the dogs before he gets the shipment 
in; but what’s the use? You all know 
the line of talk he has. But.even grant 
that he is honest and tells the farmer 
the real value of his stock and see what 
you're losing. 


What the Drover Makes. 


You expect to sell your stock at a 
dollar per hundred pounds below the 
market price, that is give the drover a 
dollar per hundred to go on. Let’s look 
at what happens when he ships a carload 
of hogs. To get the carload freight rate 
he must have 15,000 pounds or approxi- 
mately seventy-five hogs. Grant him 
twenty-five cents per cwt. for freight, 
that will take them a long way. Fig- 
ures out to $37.50. Then give him a 
five hundred pounds shrinkage, more than 
he would probably have. With hogs 
selling at $10.50 per ewt. figures out to 
$52.00. Weighing would cost seventy- 
five cents. Total expense to the drover 
(he gets his railroad fare), $90.75. He 
had $150 to go on. Subtracting the 
$90.75, and he is left a profit of $59,295 
on the car, Pretty good profit, isn’t it? 


, And he has not done a single thing to add 


to the value of those hogs that the farmer 
could not do for himself. That’s the 
profit in a case where the drover did not 
manipulate things so as to get more 
than the dollar per ewt. to go on. 


Now that’s a pretty nice sum the far- 
mers are turning over to the drovers 
for taking their stock to market. But 
the actual profit to the drover is often- 
times swelled to much larger proportions 
by methods that are not up to a 
very high moral standard of honesty. 
I cannot say that the abattoir companies 
actually approve of the drover’s methods, 
but they countenance them and very 
often play right into the drover’s hands; 
whether intentionally or unintentionally 
the result is the same for the farmer. © 
Just an instance: 


A short time ago just after hogs had 
gone to $10.50 per ecwt., the abattoirs 
made up their minds that the price was 
too high and they were going to knock 
a slice off it. In their letters to the 
country trade they quoted $9.75 to $10. 
per ewt. for choice hogs, in spite of the 
fact that they had promised any number 
of drovers $10.50 per ewt. Are you be- 
ginning to see the point? 


Siezed Their Opportunity. 


The crooked drover had things just as 
he wanted them. The hog market was 
strong, could not help being strong. 
Hogs were scarce and every shipment was 
pounced upon as soon as they hit the 
market. The drover had what was as 
good as a gurantee of $10.50 for choice 
porkers, and the scarcity was so pro- 
nounced that everything but the veriest 
scrub and. over-weight sows graded 
choice. Armed with the knowledge, of 
his guarantee of $10.50 and the packers’ 
letter quoting $9.75 to $10.00, (the daily 
papers had also been given the latter 
quotation), the drover sallied forth to 
buy hogs, not at a dollar per ewt. below 
the real market value but at $1.50 or 

Continued on Page 30 


Page § 


sat beside our fire in the open 
woods. 
about: 

For two weeks I had been hunting a 
white caribou—not the ordinary grizzly 
gray bullof the winter barrens, but a pure 
albino with magnificent antlers. Noel 
refused absolutely to have anything 
to do with such a hunt, saying it brought 
bad luck; so I left him to trap and hunt 
as he pleased while I followed the white 
stag alone. 

One afternoon, as we returned together 
from some of his otter traps, we crossed 
the fresh trail of a dozen caribou and were 
following it swiftly when the air darkened 
and snowflakes began to whirl about us. 
Noel wanted to turn back to camp at 
once, but I had seen one great track in the 
snow that I knew very well, and so follow- 
ed -the trail till it led me to the edge of 
the barrens. There in plain sight were 
the caribou, a herd of splendid animals, 
and near them but alone stood the great 
white stag. ‘‘Mine at last,’ I thought, 
as I covered his shoulder, for he was 
scarcely sixty yards away and a miss 
seemed impossible. 

A snow squall was roaring in the woods 
and swept over me in a blinding cloud 
as I pressed the trigger. Perhaps that 
is why I missed; but Noel thinks otherwise. 
Anyway the next instant the whole herd, 
not knowing where the shot came from, 
were rushing straight past me. A strong 
hand threw up the muzzle of my rifle 
as it covered the white side again, and I 
turned to find the Indian staring with 
frightened eyes at the quivering spruce 
boughs where the stag had disappeared. 

“Come,” he said sharply, ‘time to 
stop huntin’ here. I goin’ home to- 
morrow.”’ And I have been in the woods 
with an Indian long enough to know that 
it is best to be silent under such circum- 
stances. 

We went deep into the woods, dug a 
hole with our snowshoe, built a fire and 
a little commoosie of boughs and snow, 
and ate our simple hunter’s meal. Not 
a word was spoken; but when the pipes 
were lighted, Noel. who thinks J] am part 
Indian myself and who remembers, 
even when he is cross and hungry, that I 
once saved his life, drew near and sat 
down on the log beside me. 

“You goin’ hunt um dat white cari- 
bou?” 

“Not if it troubles you, Noel.” 

“Does trouble me. Trouble you too, 
if you don’t stop. What happen dat 
first time you hunt um?” 

“T went through an air hole in the 
lake,’’ I said, shivering at the recollection; 
“but that had nothing to do with the 
caribou.” : 

““Mebbe not; mebbe yes,” said Noel. 
‘What happened dat second time?” 

“Followed him too far, and got lost in 
a storm, and had to sleep out overnight,” 
I confessed meekly. 

“An’ what happened just now? Why 
you miss um easy shot? Why we stay 
here in snow ’stead of warm camp?” 
demanded the Indian. 

“O, I don’t know. 
good,” I ventured. 


LD Noel the Indian told me this 
story, one winter’s night, as we 


Here is how it came 


Cartridges no 


“Cartridge no’good, huh?! I see you‘ 


hit um rabbit twice as far as you miss um 
caribou, dem same cartridges. You want 
know why you miss um? why you most 
dead in air hole? why you have bad luck 
huntin’?” he asked earnestly. And when 
I nodded he drew closer to the fire and 
told me the story, which he had heard 
from his own father, Baptiste. 

One autumn, many years ago, old 
Tomah and young Baptiste, two Indian 
hunters, pushed up to a lake and the 
headwaters of the St. John, which they 
had chosen for the place of their winter 
papoie. All the way up the river they 
had spoken in low tones of their plans, 
growing. more eager as they approached 
the wild headwaters and the game signs 
increased; but when their canoe glided 
around the last bend of the stream and 
the unnamed lake lay spread before them, 
not a word was spoken. Some myster. 
hung over the still water and the dar 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


The White Stag 


By William J. Long in Leslie’s Monthly 


NOTE:—Mr. Long is one of Roosevelt’s famous “Nature Fakers” 


green hillsides; some subtle influence that 
both felt, but that neither could define, 
kept them silent. Three years before a 
solitary old Indian had gone to the 
lake trapping, but never came_ back. 
The search party that followed in the 
spring had found his camp and some 
of his traps, but no sign to tell his story; 
and they came away and left him in the 
woods. But until he should be found, 
and his death explained, the lake was not 
like other lakes. 

For the first month Tomah and Bap- 
tiste trapped with remarkable success, 
although fur-bearing animals had not 
yet settled into their . 
Game too was plentiful, 
was well supplied. Only 
and very wild, undoubte 
of the wolves, whose hoy 
at midnight through the 

It was late in Octoker 
unusual thing happened. 
still open, though occasio 
told them that winter 
two weeks now they had t: 
so one day when Baptiste 
where a deer came down 
and feed, he determined 
animal. The path mad 
doubled round a great be 
out upon an open point 
of the lake, and there Bapi 
ished. Never before had 
hoof-marks left by a deer. 

That night, just after 
was lyigg motionless in t] 
evergreens just below t! 
tiste was watching, his ea 
and more sensitive as he 
tense stillness of the 


of the gray boulder. A moment later 
a head with branching antlers appeared 
dimly in sight; a great stag stepped out 
from behind the rock and stood with 
raised head looking off across the lake. 


Beside the rock grew an immense hem- 
lock whose shadow was thrown across the 
deer; yet even in the shadow Baptiste 
wondered at his strange appearance. 
The mists of the lake seemed to gather 
and sway about him. For a moment 
Baptiste hesitated. Something told him 
not to shoot; but he was young and eager, 
and not yet learned to obey instantly 
the secret influences that often guide an 

: threw the muzzle of his 
1e side of the animal and 
rigger. 
is gun was appalling in the 
At the report the stag 
urd into the moonlight, 
vw with a thrill of horror 
snow-white. A moment 
re, trembling, listening; 
by the echo, turned and 
nto the forest. 


erstood now his unusual 
pping. Not for world’s 
g have harmed an animal 
ian regards with a kind 
hat brings good luck or 
wherever it comes. As 
heard the old man tell 
ze things that happened 
3 when a white deer ap- 
crowded upon him now 
with vague uneasiness. 
she stag was not harmed; 
.e ping of his bullet telling 
he knew also that any 


“Swan River has gone dry, and we are on the water-wagon now.” 


The wind moaned in the spruces, came 
down and rustled among the leaves and, 
sinking still, went whispering out of hear- 
ing among the grasses on the point. 
Now a whirring rush rolled over him 
as some startled wild fowl sheered away 
from the canoe; now the shivering wail 
of a loon floated over the lake, like the 
cry of a lost spirit, and again the hillside 
echoes wakened to a sharp cry of abject 
terror as the life of some weak, hunted 
thing went out in the grip of cruel claws 
and teeth,—the last cry of the weak one 
to the Great Spirit, as Baptiste believed, 
when no other help was near. 

Soon the pines on the eastern ridge 
began to show clear and sharp above the 
dark woods; then the moon wheeled 
slowly above the hills, flooding the lake 
and point with silver light. Baptiste’s 
paddle dipped silently, the canoe drew 
slowly away into deeper shadow, and, 
crouching lower still, he resumed his 
lonely watch. 

Two hours passed with no sight nor 
sound of game; only the long-drawn howl 
of a timber wolf came echoing down 
from the mountain side. Then there was 
a slight rustle in the woods that was not 
the wind, and Baptiste, drawing his gun 
to his shoulder, fixed his eyes on the edge 


common deer standing in the same place 
would even now be lying dead on the 
oint. Then he thought of the dead 
ndian and of the mystery that hung 
over the lake, and very doubtful, and with 
a strange thrill creeping over him, he pad- 
dled back to camp and told Tomah. 

The very next day, half way home, 
Tomah came upon the traces of a struggle 
near one of the traps, and following them 
up, found the body of a gray wolf which 
had been torn and trampled by sharp 
hoofs. At any other time the dead 
wolf and the deer tracks would have told 
the Indian’s eyes an incredible story, 
for a single gray wolf drives a whole herd 
of deer like so many sheep, and kills a 
buck as easily as a rabbit. But now it 
needed not the tuft of white hair clinging 
to the rough bark of a spruce to tell old 
Tomah that this was the white stag’s 
work, and that some mystery brooded 
here which was past his hunter’s cunning 
to explain. 

One night, nearly a month later, the 
two hunters stood outside the little camp, 
listening to the tense stillness that rests 
eternally over the wilderness. An hour 
passed, and still they waited silently. 
Then from far away to the southeast, 
over beyond the point where Baptiset 


dune 15th, 1910 


had first seen the white stag, the hunting 
ery of a timber wolf came echoing across 
the lake. Another wolf answered, then 
another, as the pack gathered for the hunt. 
Soon the howl changed to a sharp yelp; 
and there burst out the savage, tremulous 
ery of the pack in full chase. 


The cry grew louder as the chase drew 
near the lake and went sweeping along 
the eastern ridges opposite the camp. 
Old hunters as they were, uncanny chills 
coursed over the Indians as they stood 
listening, while the savage cries cut the 
stillness and went floating over the hills 
in fierce confused echoes. The chase 
turned suddenly from the lake; for miles 
they could trace its course toward the 
north and west; then the cry changed ab- 
ruptly to wild yelping, ceased, broke 
out again in a frightened uproar; then 
ceased altogether, and the two silent lis- 
teners turned shivering into their camp 
again. 

For two weeks now they had heard that: 
same chase almost nightly, always follow- 
ing the same course, and ending apparent- 
ly at the same point. They had talked 
about it over their night fire; each had 
thought about it on thedeng-lonely round 
of the marten. traps; bmbyno, explanation 
ever came to satisfy. them, It might be 
the white stag; but how did he escape; 


‘and why did hereturn? Then the thought 


of the lost Indian came over them again; 
and they knew that these things were not 
for men to know. 


That night the lake froze over; and 
three nights later the first snow storm 
spread over all the woods a pure white 
chart, on which every animal from moose 
to woodmouse left a plain trace of his 
doings. 

The next afternoon Tomah had nearly 
reached the river when he came upon a 
trap out of which a marten had just been 
dug and eaten. From the trap the fresh 
trail of the gray wolf led up towards the: 
lake. Tomah stole rapidly forward on 
the wolf’s trail. 

He had gone*but a few rods when he 
stopped suddenly, staring down at the 
trail with as much astonishment as an 
Indian’s face is ever capable of expressing. 
He could hardly believe the story the snow 
was telling him. Directly in front was the 
trail of a deer. which crossed—no, not 
crossed, but turned and followed the wolf 
swiftly as Tomah was doing. 

Again an uncanny chill crept over 
Tomah; and he hesitated, uncertain 
whether to go on or turn back. That 
he was now trailing a spirit of some kind 
he never doubted—a spirit that left the 
hoof marks of a deer. Clearly some 
strange enmity was here; it might not 
be safe nor right to pry into such things. 
But he was in the winter woods; the plain 
trail was before him, and the strong 
hunter’s instinct urged him on. With 
only a moment’s delay, therefore, he 
looked to his gun and hurried on more 
carefully than before. But there was 
little need for caution. He had followed 
the trail scarcely a half mile when the 
howl of a wolf sprang sharply out of the 
woods in front, and mingled with the 
echoes came the angry snort of a buck 
and confused sounds of a terrible battle. 

Swiftly but silently Tomah made his 
way to the outlet and looked out from 
the fringe of evergreens upon the open 
shore. There in a circle of blood-stained 
snow lay a struggling wolf, howling pit- 
eously and making futile efforts to crawl 
away, while over him in wild excitement 
the white stag was striking him with 
hoof and antler. In the midst of the 
stag’s fury Tomah saw the underbrush 
sway violently; and silently. as wolves 
fight, a huge brute broke through the 
fringe of bushes and hurled itself out 
upon the point. In a flash the buck 
had wheeled to face his enemy; but his 
fury would not let him wait to be attacked. 
Even as the wolf leaped the stag lunged 
forward with lowered head; and Tomah, 
with all his fighting blood boiling within 
him, could hardly repress a fierce shout 
as he saw the wolf raised clear for an in- 
stant and dashed down with entrails 

Continued on page 10 


June 15th, 1910 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Page 9 


He p Us and He p Y ourselves 


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The White Stag 


Continued from Page 8 


streaming from a fearful wound opened 
by the gallant stag’s antlers. 

It was dusk when Tomah and Baptiste 
reached their little cabin. As darkness 
increased the howl of a wolf came up from 
the lake—a prolongued howl, in which 
grief and fierce anger seemed struggling 
for expresesion. The pack was gathering, 
and for an hour the hunters listened to 
the wild dirge wailing about the dead 
wolves. A loud yelp sounded quick 
and sharp above the din, which ceased 
instantly. A moment of silence followed, 
then the trail ery broke out, and the same 
mysterious chase went sweeping along 
the ridges above the lake shore. 

Standing without the camp the Indians 
listened till the cry ceased as_ before; 
then turned in to sleep. They had longed 
for the snow, and it was here; and the 
chase was run-over its tell-tale surface. 
Spirit or no spirit, to-morrow they would 
find out more about it. 

With the first light they crossed the 
lake and entered the heavy timber. 
There, in the summit of the first low 
ridge, lay the trail they were seeking; 
and it needed no second glance at the big 
hoof-marks to tell them, what they have 
long known instinctively, that it was the 
white stag which led the nightly hunt. 
The tracks went leaping along, clearing 
every obstacle with mighty bounds; 
and running parallel to the trail, but 
never crossing it, confused footprints 
showed where a score of wolves had 
followed on the gallop. 

Swiftly the Indians followed, up the 
ridge and across the inlet and miles away 
to the northwest, where the chase had 
ended nightly for a-month past. Here 
the forest opened. A wild ravine cut 
by the swift mountain torrent stretched 
straight across their path. On the slope 
that led down to the edge of it stood an 
immense pine, towering head and should- 
ers over the forest. Straight under this 
pine at a terrific pace rushed the stag, 
clearing the thirty-foot ravine at a bound, 
and standing at the edge the hunters 
could see his tracks on the other side, 
where he had turned and waited for his 
pursuers. But what puzzled them was 
that not a wolf had approached the edge, 
nor attempted to follow. A short dis- 
tance above or below they could easily 
have gained the other side, but instead 
of attempting it, the tracks showed that 
they had formed a half circle about the 
tree, wavered back and forth a few minutes 
in confusion and then slunk away on the 
back trail, as if something had frightened 
them. . 

For a long time then Tomah and Bap- 
tiste stood there on the edge of the torrent, 
casting wistful glances across,as if to read 
some explanation there in the shadowy 
thickets. But no explanation came; 
the mystery only deepened. Reluctantly 
they turned away and went back to the 
circle of wolf tracks, but no explanation 
was there either. Beyond a well defined 
line not a wolf had set his foot, and fol- 
lowing some of the tracks they found that 
the pack had disbanded, and hurried away 
to their scattered dens far back among 
the ridges. Again the Indians turned 
back and stood silent, baffled, mystified, 
beneath the pine. > 

Lying close beside the pine was a small 
mound of snow, which seemed to force 
itself gradually upon Tomah’s attention 
as he stood leaning upon his gun. He had 
noticed it before, but thought it only a 
rounded boulder. Now in a_ sudden 
spirit of curiosity, which was half obedi- 
ence, he went and thrust his moccasin 
into it. Some object yielded beneath 
his foot, and with a quick twist he threw 
it upon the snow, then recoiled with a 
startled exclamation as the whole meaning 
of it flashed over him, in one of those 
marvelous mind movements which reveal 
a history as the lightning’s flash illumina- 
tes alandscape at midnight. It was.a hu- 
man skull. They had found the lost 
Indian. 

Carefully they scraped the snow aside 
and gathered the skeleton together. 
The half-gowned bones, still ghowing the 
marks of wolf fangs, told all too plainly 
how he met his death. Near the tree 
they found a rusted knife and rifle, and 
in the underbrush the bones of three 
wolves, one with a bullet hole in the skull. 

The story was clear as if written for 
them. Indeed it was written, in the 
characters an Indian “best... understands. 
The poor hunter, coming home late from 


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some lonely visit to his traps, had been 
chased by the starving wolves and had 
fled toward the river; hoping to throw 
them off the scent. They had overtaken 
him at the rayine before he could clamor 
down, had rushed out upon him, no doubt, 
while he yet thought them far away. 
With his back against the pine he had 
fought for his life, had killed three, 
perhaps more, of the wolves, and then was 
pulled down and eaten. 


With the axe that Tomah always 
carried at his belt they sharpened some 
stakes and hollowed out a shallow grave 
beneath the pine. The wind edied about 
them and whispered its secrets in the 
spruces, but the pine’s great arms swere 
motionless the while; only a soft, clear 
note sounded far up among its leaves 
like the echo of distant music. The 
Indians were silent; they listened as they 
worked, Into the grave they gathered the 
scattered bones, with the old knife and 
rifle, and covered them with loose earth, 
upon which they rolled heavy stones to 
guard them forever from prowling beasts. 
Deep into the rough trunk of the old 
pine they carved a rude cross. 


That night, just as the moon rose, the 
uncanny chase began again. Standing 
by the little cabin the two men listened 
with breathless interest as the cry swept 
round toward the river and the lonely 
grave where it had been wont to end. 
Again, as before, they heard the trail-cry 
break into wild howls, and cease abruptly 
when the wolves reached the pine. Five 
minutes passed in dead silence. Still they 
stood waiting, with ears strained to catch 
the slightest sound. Then a prolonged 
howl, fierce and exultant, again set the 
echoes flying, and a moment later the ful] 
ery came ringing down the western ranges. 
The wolves had crossed the ravine. 
The white stag was running his last race. 

The cry passed rapidly along the hill- 
side above the camp and went out of 
hearing toward the south. Four or five 
hours passed; the hunters were sleeping. 
Then strange, faint sounds came creeping 
through the dark woods to the little camp. 
Baptiste stirred uneasily in his sleep; 
Tomah raised himself suddenly from his 
bed of boughs; the next moment they were 
both outside the camp. Far away in the 
southeast they heard the cry of the pack 
growing louder. It told them that the 
stag had turned, and seizing their guns 
they hurried down to an open point 
that commanded a view of the whole lake, 
lying white and still under the moonlight. 

The minutes dragged on with the cry 
drawing nearer, but very slowly. Then 
the alders swayed suddenly on the south 
shore and the stag broke out upon the 
lake. A thrill of pity stole over the 
watchers as they saw him struggling over 
the ice, still slippery under the light snow. 
His head, instead of being thrown up 
and back, as deer run, drooped forward 
till the protruding tongue almost swept 
the snow. and he staggered as he ran 
towards the point where Baptiste had 
first seen him. His spirit was broken— 
nay, it had left him, said Tomah—and 
he ran as if unconscious. 


Fifty yards behind him the wolves broke 
out of the woods with redoabled howls, 
the sight of their game inspiring them 
suddenly with new strength and fierceness. 
Part of the pack at once separated from 
the rest and disappeared silently into 
the shadow that bordered the lake below 
the point. The rest eased up on the 
chase, giving their leaders a chance to 
head the quarry. 


The stag reached the point and the 
watchers saw the antlered head go up 
as he bounded forward. Then from 
behind the great boulder dark forms 
leaped squarely athwart his path. An 
instant the hunted beast seemed to hesi- 
tate, frozen with sudden terror, then the 
antlered head went down again and he 
lunged straight forward to meet them. 


A short, terrible struggle followed. 
For a few moments they could see him 
battle with desperate courage, plunging, 
striking among the leaping forms with the 
strength and spirit they had seen before. 
Twice the death-howl of a wolf rose 
above the tense silence of the fighting 
brutes. Suddenly they saw him rear 
high above the pack. An instant he 
stood poised, a gray silhovette against 
the dark woods, with the writhing brutes 
below. Then a big wolf leaped up and 
fastened to his throat and he fell, as the 
pine falls when the steel has bitten through 
to its heart. 


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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Protection; the Curse of Canada 


(Fourth Article) 
By J. A. STEVENSON 


“The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil 
for which I am afraid the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a 
remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolising spirit of merchants 
and manufacturers who neither are nor ought to be the rulers of man- 
kind, though it cannot perhaps be ended may very easily be prevented 
from disturbing the tranquility of anybody but themselves.”—Adam 


Smith. 


S FAR as the agricultural interest 
of Canada is concerned the most 
burdensome and depressing item 
of the tariff is the duty on agri- 
cultural implements. This duty 

is so high and severe that it has enabled 
a few firms comprising a select ring of 
manufacturers in Eastern Canada _ to 
control the market and establish a most 
iniquitous monopoly. It has been proved 
that certain agricultural implements manu- 
factured in Canada can be bought at least 
$30 cheaper.in Britain than in the Domi- 
nion itself. The implement combine 
practices the very dumping which it 
continually complains of on the part of 
American manufacturers. By means of 
the tariff it is able to raise the price in the 
whole market to an. artificial level and to 
secure an export trade by. dumping at 
sacrifice prices. Probably few _ people 
realize how beneficial free trade in_agri- 
cultural implements would be in the West. 
It would mean a reduction in their cost 
of about 20 per cent. and this reduction 
might mean the possession of an extra 
binder or plow to numberless settlers. 
The possession of an extra plow or binder 
would’ mean an enormous increase In 
the acreage under cultivation and a 
tremendous stimulation of agricultural 
development. The ultimate effect would 
be to raise the price of land and the real 
estate market would certainly not be a 


loser. F ‘ 
The Woollen Tariff 


Next in the greatness of its iniquity 
comes the woollen schedule. Up till 1900 
there was a duty of 35 per cent. on foreign 
imports of woollen, with a preference of 
one-third of this in favor of British. 
There were, however, desperate protests 
from various manufacturers in the East 
and in response to their demands the 
tariff was raised to what is practically 
an average of 30 per cent., at which it 
stands today. Now, in a cold country 
like Canada woollens must rank as one 
of the necessities of life, and a tax on a 
necessity is the most unfair tax that can 
exist. In this case it is a body tax, and 
is in no way based on the ability to pay, 
which is the soundest basis of all taxation. 
Take the two contrasting cases of a bache- 
lor who earns $3,000 per annum and has 
only himself to clothe and a man with the 
same income who has a wife and six 
children to provide with clothes, blankets, 
carpets, etc. The tax falls on the latter 
man many times as heavily as on the 
former and their ability to pay is absolute- 
ly.equal. It has been calculated that it 
would profit the people of Canada to 
pension off all the woollen manufacturers 
and keep them for life in confortable 
hotels in Toronto and Montreal and give 
all their employees free homesteads, 
provided the country was allowed perfect 
freedom to buy its woollen goods in the 
open market. Cotton stands on exactly, 
the same footing. 
hope to compete with Lancashire and 
Yorkshire in the woollen and cotton 
industries, except at enormous expense. 
Like them she lacks the raw materials, 
but unlike them she does not possess the 


peculiarly suitable climate and the highly | 


developed industrial instincts in her people. 
It is the most stupendous folly to subsidize 
at enormous expense industries which 
‘are unnatural to the country. It always 
pays to manufacture the raw material as 
near the scene of its production as possible, 
as the cost and extravagance involved in 
bringing the raw material for textile 
manufacturers to points in the interior of 
a country is enormous. 


No Longer Infants 

It is unnecessary to go into the details 
of other protected industries in Canada. 
They used to shelter themselves under 
the cry of infaficy, but it no longer avails. 
There is nothing very infantile about the 
Dominion Steel Company, capitalized at 
$35,000,000; the Nova Scotia Steel Com- 
pany at $10,000,000; the Dominion Tex- 
tile Company at $8,000,000; the Montreal 


Canada can never’ 


Textile Company at $4,000,000 (both 
cotton corporations), and the Penman 
Company, a woollen concern at $4,000,000 
As a Liberal member, in the free trade 
days of the party, once said of them, 
“The infant industries are like the fatted 
calf—always sucking and they never will 
be weaned. You suggest a reduction to 
them and they look so lean and miserable 
that you would pity them from the bottom 
of your heart, but when they feel that the 
tariff is safe, they swell out to enormous 
proportions and display their carriages 
and footmen and their eyes stick out 
with greatness.” Now that the plea of 
infancy is no longer available for these 
large corporations they have invented 
other excuses of which probably the most 
popular is to demand more protection to 
extend their export trade. 


Hits The Farmer 


If any article on which a duty is levied 
be the raw material of any other industry 
the raw material is made more expensive 
and the working cost of the industry is 
increased. The extra cost must be 
recovered by an increase in the price of 
the article manufactured which may pos- 
sibly be the raw material of some other 
industry. And so on through the chain 
of raw materials and finished products 
goes the effect of increased prices and with 
it naturally a demand for further protec- 
tion by the manufacturers who in turn 
are hit by the increased cost of their raw 
material and enlarged working expenses. 
For instance, iron is the raw material for 
agricultural implements and the duty on 
iron must increase the cost of the imple- 
ment. Agricultural implements are part 
of the raw material of the wheat growing 
industry, and thus the cost of its. pro- 
duction isincreased. As the farmer forms 
by far the largest element in the com- 
munity, the great burden of this pro- 
gressive system of unfair taxation ulti- 
mately descends to his shoulders. The 
net result is that the farmer rises in the 
morning out of blankets taxed 30 per cent., 
puts on shoes and underclothing taxed at 


the same rate; dons clothes taxed likewise; 
goes down stairs bought of taxed lumber 
and kindles his fire with matches on which 
25 per cent. has been levied. When he 
puts on his boots he feels a tax of 25 per 
cent; when he puts on his cap, one of 30 
per cent. He feeds and waters his horses 
out of pails taxed 20 per cent. He grooms 
them with brushes and combs on which 
he pays 80 per cent., and washes himself 
with soap on which he pays 20 per cent. 
He sits down to a table covered with 
oilcloth taxed 30 per cent., and the crock- 
ery from which he takes his food has 
had to bear the same duty. Many things 
on his breakfast table are free from taxa~- 
tion, but sugar is not the sweeter for the 
40 per cent. duty there is on it. The 
harness on his horses and the hitches on 
his plow and harrows are all equally 
taxed 20 per cent. His sleighs and buggy 
pay 25 per cent. and his axe the same. 
His mower and rake are both taxed 20 
per cent. and his fork 25 per cent. When 
his day’s work is done he cannot light his 
lamp without paying an enormous tax 
on his oil. This tariff taxation dates from 
his birth with the duty on his swaddling 
clothes and it pursues him with grievous 
burden throughout his life. But it is 
not content to let him escape even after 
death, for his coffin is taxed at the rate 
of 25 per cent. and his shroud at 30 per 
cent. 


Monopoly Follows Tariff 


This cruel doctrine of protection was 
originally invented and propagated by 
the spirit of monopoly, and monopoly 
has followed in its train wherever it has 
been safely established. A few years ago 
the Toronto Sun conducted an extremely 
able campaign against the numerous 
combines existing in Ontario, and proved 
to the hilt the truth of their charges. 
The Laurier Government las also been 
brought to give a grudging recognition 
of the existence of these rapacious monop- 
olies, and Mr. Mackenzie-King’s recent 
Anti-Trust Bill was a half-hearted attempt 
to give some relief, In every country it 
always is and must be to the interest of 
the majority of the inhabitants to buy 
whatever they want in the cheapest 
market.. The only parties who can 
continually benefit by protection are the 
producers on a large scale, i.e., those who 
produce far more than they consume, the 
capitalists. In this connection Adam 
Smith says: “‘The proposition is so very 
manifest that it seems ridiculous to take 
any pains to prove it. Nor could it 
ever be called in question had not the 
interested sophistry of merchants and 
manufacturers confounded the common 
sense of mankind.” 


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LAMB VERSUS STEEL 

Editor, Gurpw:--In yours of the Jith 
May is a letter from Mr. Geo. Steel, 
M.P.P., of Glenboro, demanding that I 
show him that government owned and 
operated elevators would be a paying 
proposition for the | government. | Now, 
I could not show him that government 
ownership of elevators In conpesition 
with privately owned elevators wou 
produce enough revenue to pay interest 
on investment and running expenses. 
An elevator of any kind would produce no 
revenue unless the people patronized a 
and no person could just say where F : 
people are going to store their grain. ’ u 
it is labor applied to land that proc uspet 
all the revenue now, the revenues anaes 
by governments and the revenues oh 
tained by the private ownership of e eye 
tors. ‘The labor of the people is the sour 
of these two varieties of revenue. a 
all the revenues went to the ore 
then the government would be a : 
remit the innumerable other tax pu . 
that it now lays on our backs. pots 
people would patronize an elevator pt 
they themselves owned in prstesenl = 
one owned by, private corpora MY na 
Surely they would rather run the gates 
of revenues from elevators into the pu b ‘ 
till than into the private pockets of others. 
And if they haven’t sense enough to see 
this point, then it might be that govern- 
ment owned elevators 10 eat 
with privately owned elevators would no 
e oventient ownership of _ elevators 
is not the solution of the economic problem 
but it is a step towards that solution. 
There are many businesses that the 
government might easily take over 
instead of “farming out’’ those businesses 
to private parties as now— businesses 
that are practical monopolies. It makes 
a great difference whether revenues are 
going into the public treasury to help 
pay public expenses, or whether Zevenuc 
are going into private pockets to be 
up a class that prey and plunder on the 
great wealth producing masses. And. it 
is the business of the government and 
their solemn duty to prevent any one class 
or any one man from hurting any other 
man or set of men, Governments are 
intended to promote peace, justice, 
security of life and prosperity among 
people; not to make laws and regulations 
that allow and protect one class to plunder 
and rob other classes. One class or set 
of people cannot be very rich unless we 
have others very poor. One cannot “get” 
without earning unless many others “earn 
without “getting.” One man cannot get 
a pile unless others work and make that 
pile for him. The rights of labor are the 
rights of property because all property 
is the result of labor and under a just 
government those who work most would 
have most. This is the sum and substance 
of what Mr. Steel terms ““My sympathy 
with labor and laborers.” He represents 
a constituency of labor and laborers, and 
therefore, as a public man representing 
such people, should be far more interested 
in “labor and laborers” than I am. 
Labor has cleared the forests, broken up 
the prairies, erected all the bulidings, 
produced all the crops, hauled all of them 
market, built the elevators, the railroads, 
the stations, mined the coal, fired the 
locomotives, turned on and off the brakes, 
in short, labor has done all that is done 
and the people whom it represents have 
done their share, and if justice prevailed, 
then the laborers everywhere would have 
big bank accounts, But they haven't. 
Surely here is a problem for statesmanship, 


and it is to our public men that we must 
look for solutions of these problems and 
for protection to the rights of labor, the 
oldest of human rights, but a right that 
apparently has been lost sight of in our 
greedy chase after dollars sweated out of 
the people. 

Now, since Mr. Steel is not in favor of 
government elevators as a step in the 
direction of securing to labor the fruits 
of toil, will he, as a public man, be good 
enough to let us know what measures 
he does favor with that end in view. 

In securing justice to others, we assure 
justice to ourselves and to our children, 
honorable alike in what we give and in 


what we receive. : 
W. D. LAMB. 
Plumas, Man. 


My ate aM 
he he te 


MORE ROOM FOR INQUIRY 

Editor, Gurpe:—Seeing an article in 
Tue Guin regarding bulls running at 
large I thought I would express an 
opinion on the subject and say that I 
am right with the writer. The law at 
present is rotten; simply useless, and I 
am not afraid of my neighbors either. 
Nor am I afraid to. tell our Live Stock 


Commissioner that quite a number of 
the farmers will expect him to do his best 
to see that we get a Jaw that will prevent 
bulls running at large. We want no 
half hearted support from the Commission- 
er or the Minister of Agriculture. We 
want the goods and I think both are 
capable of delivering them. 

Tse Guie has published the’ story 
of the elevator robberies. More power 
to your pen. Now find out why the 
companies that were fined last year for 
selling short binder twine didn’t meet 
with publicity. It seems to me that 
unless the name is published they can 
afford to pay the fine and still make money 
according to the figures in Tur Gurpp, 
which is good enough for me. 

D. G. MARKLE. 
Lamont, Alta. 


Norre.—The only way that authoratitive 
figures on the elevator graft were secured 
was through a government investigation. 
These investigations are hard to get, but 
usually produce results. Their scope 
should be extended.—Ep. 


OUR TARIFF TROUBLES. 


Editor, Guipe:—In approaching this 
question which the Gurpr ‘has justly 
described as a matter of more importance 
to the farmers of this country than to 
any other class, it is well to assume a 
somewhat judicial attitude and weigh 
the pros and cons of the case very carefully 
to avoid faulty conclusions. This mat- 
ter, like any other, has two sides though 
we farmers are tempted to doubt this 
at times. The extreme views have both 
been admirably dealt with by Mr. Langley 
and Mr. Kirkham, the first named 
having presented the gospel of retaliation 
and the latter that of the extreme free 
trader. Now, somewhere between those 


two lies that compromise of conflicting. 


interests which is the foundation of most 
legislation. Let us Jook first at retaliation 
from the manufacturers’ standpoint and 
then look from the farmers.’ 

The manufacturers, through their power- 
ful association, present their case to the 
government something like this: ‘“‘The 


‘*A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” 
Wilfrid:—I think I’ll let this one qo and get after the big ones. 


Little Boy West:—Oh no! this 


sg the one you promised me, and I want it. 


an 


June 15th, 1910 


manufacturers of the country are invest- 
ing their capital in industries which, when 
developed, will give this country a greater 
place among the nations in many ways, and 
unless protected by a tariff, cannot 
make headway by reason of the fact that 
manufacturers in the republic to the 
south can dump upon our markets the 
articles we are manufacturing at a lower 
price than we can sell them.” ‘This is 
possible for the reason that the United 
States have attained an economy in pro- 
duction impossible for us at present, 
Also the business which is necessary to 
carry on the business of the country 
would benefit by retaliation at the ex- 
pense of the manufacturers of other 
countries. Another point which the manu- 
facturers make is the one that Mr. Lang- 
ley deals with referring to the fact that 
the United States taxes imports from 
Canada heavily and that we should hit 
back. 

The farmers as a class love to fight and 
the retaliation cry is bound to find follow- 
ers among them, The thinkers, however, 


“represented by the Grain Growers’ As- 


sociation, are forced to the conclusion 
that the manufacturers would do the re- 
taliating, but the consumer, usually 
of the farming class, will have to pay the 
piper. The curse of the whole question 
lies right here, in the fact that in spite of 
the present. tariff, American articles can 
be purchased in Canada, after paying 
an import duty, as cheaply in most 
cases as Canadian manufactured articles. 
This shows, generally at any rate, that if 
the import duty on a certain article is 
twenty per cent. the Canadian Manufac- 
turer of that article, tacks twenty-five 
per cent. on to the sellng price of his 
product, thus forcing the consumer to 
pay, not only the retaliatory tariff, which 
goes to the revenue, but also an unjust 
profit to the home manufacturer, when 
home products are purchased. If any 
proof of this is needed let the farmer 
figure on his machinery, comparing the 
figures of the Canadian and the United 
States implements. In’ many cases a 
magnifying glass would be necessary 
to detect the difference. 

Does free trade offer a remedy? Under 
present world conditions, No. Any coun- 
try brave enough to take the plunge would 
undoubtedly suffer at the hands of the 
highly protected countries each of which 
have natural and economic advantages 
along certain lines of manufacture which 
would enable them to cripple that particu- 
lar industry in a Free Trade country. 
No, unless almost the whole world adopt- 
ed Free Trade there is little hope for 
Canada along that line. Then again, 
the whole financial fabric of the adminis- 
tration would have to be re-constructed 
if Free Trade were introduced. We must 
not forget that a large share of the cost 
of running this or any protected country, 
is derived from import duties and if these 
were abolished that money would have to 
be raised by direct taxation. Although 
many of us belive heartily in the latter 
principle we must admit that the masses 
are not yet educated up to it. 

What is the remedy? The first is an 
ideal, probably impracticable, but none 
the less a solution if means can be found 
to enforce it. The farmers of this country 
would be willing to consent to protect 
the industries if the latter would sell 
heir products at a fair profit instead of 
‘tacking on the import duty, or part of it, 
‘as at present. Thus would producers 


“and consumers be working together for 


the good of all. But, alas, for the ideal. 
Human selfishness is not likely to allow 
it to come to pass and therefore we must 
pass on to a sterner measure and that is 
reciprocity. The question was asked at 
the Prince Albert convention, why the 
Canadian Government did not accept 
the United States offer of Free Trade in 
agricultural implements and the answer 
is, that the manufacturers’ association 
proved to the government that, as the 
United States harvest is earlier than ours 
our markets would be flooded with cheap 
United States implements under reciprocal 
Free Trade, the United States manufac- 
turers preferring to sell a little cheaper 
than hold over for a year. The farmers 
of this country, working out their own 
salvation through the Grain Growers’ 
Association must fight the other interetss 
with their own weapons and so bring 
pressure to bear on the goyernment along 
the line of reciprocity which is the only 
ractical remedy in sight at present. 

e are told that the tariff is a dead issue 
but the answer to this is that the united 


June 16th, 1910 


agriculturalists of Canada can make any 
issue they wish, and by cohesion can bring 
to pass that which they desire unitedly. 
Let us in this, as in other questions 
‘effecting us, not forget four necessaries. 
They are taken from the letter heads of 
the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Asso- 
ciation and are:—Organization, Agitation 
Education and Emancipation. 

CHAS. A. DUNNING. 


Me he oe 
A SPECULATOR’S COUNTRY. 


Editor, Gurpr:—Enclosed find one 
dollar to pay for my subscription to Tun 
Gur for 1910. Kindly send me the 
last week’s issue, I would rather go with- 
out one meal a day than one copy of the 
Gu1pE, as I consider it the most truthful 
paper published in Winnipeg. Some peo- 
ple are too busy working for interest 
on land speculations, land for interest, 
that they have no money to subscribe to an 
intelligent paper, that would teach them 
why the man that works gets less than 
the one that doesn’t. This is certainly 
a speculator’s country, particularly in 
land bonuses for land speculators. They 
seem to be able to get most of some 
farmer’s crops for interest. That is what 
I call sponging producers’ crops, according 
to legal law. 

A GREEN ENGLISHMAN AND 

SINGLE TAXER. 


Me te 
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BUILD H. B. R. AT ONCE. 


Editor, Gurpe:—I noticed an article 
in your issue of June Ist headed “ Hudson 
Bay Road First.’’? Now it seems to me 
that the government has too many large 
ideas of routes to the Hudson Bay, and 
none of them ever materializes. We well 
know the issues used in the last Federal 
elections—one of which, and I think the 
chief one was—‘‘Return the Liberal 
Party to power and get the H. B. R. 
right away.” And the West certainly 
did her share towards returning the Lib- 
eral party, but evidently we are not going 
to get the H. B. R. as promised. 

Sir. Wilfred Laurier, in Toronto, last 
January, stated that, if at all possible 
the government intended to start the 
H. B. R. this very year. It seems to be 
the pride of some politicians to keep their 
people in expectation, but this will last 
only for a time. The people of the west 
have been promised the H. B. R. and they 
will not be satisfied till they get it. This 
question was made mention in the House 
on December 13, 1909, with ample time 
to do the preliminary work on at least 
200 miles of the road; but the matter 
received no attention from the House 
till a short time ago when they set aside 
$500,000 which is about 14 of 1 per cent. 
of the present annual revenue of the Dom- 
inion, and I understand that this amount 
is not for the purpose of building the road 
but for building a bridge across the Sask- 
atehewan River, which bridge when com- 
plete will likely cost in the neighborhood 
of $2,000,000, and of course will prolong 
the time of building of the road for a 
number of years. 

The estimated cost of building and 
equipping the H. B. R. by the Pas, is 
$19,108,672; now $500,000 will build 
about 25 miles, therefore if the government 
is going to set aside $500,000 annually 
for the purpose of building this road it will 
take about 19 years to complete the work, 
which is certainly doing things on the in- 
stalment plan. 

The government, last year in answer 
to a question in the House acknowledged 
that it has sold about 7 millions of pur- 
chased homesteads and pre-emptions; 
so we may assume that they have now 
credited to the fund set aside for the pur- 
pose of building this H. B. R. about 
10 million dollars. Surely we are entitled 
to something more than the interest on 
this amount. I cannot see the object 
of the government building a railroad 
by the Pas, as it is well known that it 
will run through a muskeg country, 
and anyone who has had any experience 
with muskeg knows that it is only a 
heavy layer of moss, commonly called 
deerhorn moss, two or more feet deep. 
This moss covers quicksard and water 
and protects the ground or quicksand in 
summer from thawing out, just as gaw- 
dust does to ice in the icehouse. But 
when once the moss.is removed; a8 it 
must be in constructing a railroad, then 
the bottom falls out of the road. 

These dre all known facts to men of 
-experienee but even if they did not ex. 
ist, this one road could not handle the 
needs of these thied great Western pro 


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vinces. At present there are four rail- 
roads from ,Winnipeg to Fort William, 
surely this great west can support two 
roads to Hudson Bay. One road through 
a muskeg country will never satisfy 
the needs of this Great West extending 
for 800 miles from Winnipeg to Edmonton. 
We must have at least two and with sub- 
stantial bottoms. One road should run 
from Winnipeg by way of Selkirk on the 
height of land between the Nelson and 
Hayes Rivers to Port Nelson at the mouth 
of the Nelson River. Now, Prince Albert 
is our most northern city and is about 200 
miles nearer salt water by way of Fort 
Churchill than by way of Fort William, 
therefore the second railroad should be 
run from Prince Albert on the height of 
land between the Churchill and the North 
Saskatchewan and Nelson Rivers. These 
routes in both cases would save great 
expense in regard to bridging and exca- 
vation; and we would then have something 
substantial. It is also stated that these 
two roads can be built for about the same 
cost as ‘one through the muskeg country. 

Some will say that these routes are no 
better than the one by the Pas. Let 
those take the government map and look 
up the heights and lands and they will 
find that the people of Western Canada 
know the conditions there. Again some 
of our eastern friends and opponents of 
the Hudson Bay Railroad scheme will 
have us believe that the Hudson Bay is 
frozen over for at least ten months of the 
year. This is an erroneous impression, 
for the geography will show us that the 
Hudson Bay and North Sea are in the 
same latitude; therefore if the Hudson 
Bay is frozen over as some would have us 
believe then the North Sea must be 
frozen likewise, but no one ever dreamt 
of the Empire of Germany coming over 
to England on the ice. 

Now, let me say a few words to the 
directors of the Grain Growers’ Associa- 
tions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and 
Alberta. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the 
Hon. Mr. Graham, Minister of Railroads, 
are coming west in the early part of July 
and will probably visit our most important 
cities of the West. Would it~not be a 
good plan to have each and every Associa-~ 
tion in these three provinces represented 
in the way of a deputation, and meet the 
honorable gentlemen in every city that 
they stop, nearest our respective districts, 
and hand them some good hot resolutions 
demanding our rights? In conclusion 
I would say let us get busy while we have 
the chance, for if we let these gentlemen 
travel through our country without asking 
for our rights, I will venture to say that 
we will be compelled to wait a considerable 
length of time for the Hudson Bay 


Railroad. 
W. H. LAWRENCE. 
Aberdeen, Sask. 
June 9th, 1910. 


WANTS FARMERS’ PARTY. 


Editor, Guipn:—In replying to Mr. 
Langley’s letter, ‘A farmers’ party need- 
less’’—personally I should like to agree 
with him, but I can’t because it is palpably 
obvious that we have not two. political 
parties, but two factions of one and the 
same party—plutocracy. Mr. Langley 
knows that quite contrary to his state- 
ments both factions (Liberal and Con- 
servative) are sold out to the privileged 
business interests of capitalist greed, 
that our grand democratic constitution 
is continually set at naught, that the 
consumers and producers of natural pro- 
ducts are cruelly fleeced by the duplicity 
of both factions. .That when any issue 
affecting the masses comes up at Ottawa, 
there is no genuine opposition. Both 
faction leaders stand to maintain the priv- 
ileged interests, at the people’s expense. 

Sir Wilfrid has put on the Tory clothes, 
has given the special interests everything 
in sight and glories in his duplicity for he 
has sold our rights and justice that he 
pledged himself to uphold. The evi- 
dence is overwhelmingly obtrusive that 
we farmers have been betrayed. There 
is no such thing as government by, of 
and for the people, but the sordid system 
of bureaucratic opportunism has been 
substituted therefor. 

_ Our vote is our Magna Charta. It is 
70 per cent. of the total. Labor vote 
is 25 per cent. It appears to me that 
Mr. petiey pessimism knows neither 
the people’s powers or their need of jus- 
tice. How can we Grain Growers know 
our ¢ powers? How can we acquire 
our justaights, if we undervalue the power 
of dur apwiperative vote? How can we 


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acquire our just rights and abrogate our 

olitical grievances if we have no faith 
in our liabilities, faculties to organize 
the great franchise we possess? 

‘Why should we split our great vote, 
for thereby we let the special interests 
of a few avaricious capitalists and a few 
flesh-pot politicians (a mere handful 
of the remaining voters) run the whole 
show. Why does Mr. Langley stand 
for such a policy of puerility and weak- 
ness—the selling of our birthright, a policy 
that has always been barren of effects— 
a policy the opposite of honest and co- 
operative principles. He seems so en- 
grossed with his own talents and the 
duplicity of the two factions and_ his 
knowledge of “having seen things from 
the inside privileges him to give a more 
impartial appraisment.” Nearly forty 
years he says he has been one of these 
parties yet he seems not to have found 
out that we have but two factions of 
the same party—the party of pluto- 
cracy and opportunism. His defence 
of both sides of politics is too dangerous 
and of too great importance to let pass. 
He would keep you readers in a. con- 
dition of political coma. But if you are 
men, you will refuse to be thus lulled 
into political sleep. Your emancipation 
is entirely a question of co-operation of 
votes; votes in your own, not present 
day politician and_ specialized pirates 
interests together with scandalous graft, 
corruption, extravagance, arch-betrayal, 
traitorism to solemn pledges to the people 
by both faction machines. 

Do not let us be fooled by anyone, 
Mr. Langley included, who says that we 
can get redress of our needs by following 
the lines of least resistance and by taking 
our choice of two of hell’s faction machines 
and thus be able to dominate the devil. 
Such namby pamby twaddle has for a 
long time been smirked at in the specia- 
lized campaign fund ‘‘Red-parlors” of 
schemes. It is a fatal mistake to sup- 
pose that these mercenary faction mach- 
ines, the two crooked factions and their 
equally bent readers and the strong lines 
of vested interests are too strong to be 
properly controlled. A condition of per- 
manency only belongs to perfect govern- 
ment. We have crooked government 
because the farmers consent to it, by split- 
ting instead of co-operating their votes. 
Why shall Mr. Langley consent to and 
want to continue a vicious (?) system, 
much less defend it? It is bad enough to 
know that Mr. Langley is part and parcel 
of this system of diabolism. But to ask 
decent electors to join the juggernaut 
machine that ever betrays us, and starves 
us; to ask us to shed our light on these 
parties, is to ask us, I say, to beat air 
or bay at the moon. The whole request 
is too diabolical; too dirty for any self- 
respecting voter. 

Tf Mr. Langley insists in trying to mud- 
dle the plain difference between the 
duty of our rendering service to each other 
by an organized political party and the 
frightful partisan allegiance to crookedly 
organized diabolical machines,—more 
crooked today than at any previous 
period—he must bear the stigma and 
consequence of inviting us to choose 
betwixt two crooks. Upright members 
of our organizations should blush and 
come out from the unclean thing. Scrip- 
ture, ‘“Come ye out from the unclean 
thing and be ye separate therefrom.” 
This is my first bible quotation in this 
controversy in spite of our friend Langley’s 
previous euphemism. It is Mr. Laucley 
who first used what he delicately sneers 
at. 

What is needed is that farmers must 
act together, politically as well as indus- 
trially. We must direct our course in 
the one as the other solely by the compass 
of our own efforts through our own party. 
becoming partisans to our own just rights 
instead of partisans to the two factions 
who have enslaved us. Mr. Langley 
should know that there can be no eman- 
cipation for us by our own efforts polit- 
ically. The shibboleth of the farmers 
must be, “Justice for the producers of 
natural wealth,’’ which cannot be had 
but by our own party. We have too long 
sacrificed our interests to the Moloch 
of factions and verily we have paid 
dearly for it, and in public matters the 
said two factions are combined against 
us. This will continue until we cease 
to acknowledge them as separate parties, 
till we stand for our freedom against 
bureaucracy and freedom against caucas 
class legislation; in short it will continue 
as long as. we refuse to organize and there- 
by have ourselves truly represented 
in parliament buy trustworthy  intelli- 


‘cheating ourselves. 


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gent farmers. To be content just to turn 
out one faction and put the other one in 
is not a rational attitude for any class of 
Canadians. 

Suppose we admit that we have two 
distinct parties with two distinct policies. 
It does not follow that even though these 
policies are opposites that either of them 
would be in our interests. The question 
arises, why should there be only two par- 
ties? Why should we (the seventy per 
cent.) be without any say or voice in 
law making. Yet this is just how in 
practice the grand British North America 
Act works out, destroying so many of 
our just rights as a class. The same with 
the labor vote. There can be no higher 
patriotic work than to educate and or- 
ganize the unrepresented agricultural 
vote. If it is not done now, the time will 
come, in spite of all friend Langley can 
do, when Grain Growers will think it is 
worth while to consolidate our voting 
powers. 

Difference of opinion on political mat- 
ters is no cause for strife between Mr. 
Langley and the undersigned. Neither 
do I see that it should have other than a 
genuine educational good effect upon the 
members of our organization, providing 
that we write conscientiously from con- 
viction and facts. 

Mr. Langley asks us, “‘as far as possible 
to keep to industrial matters.’”? That 
request is decidedly good, if it were possi- 
ble or practicable, but since everything 
the Grain Growers have yet taken up is 
political, and has to be granted by our 
politicians, his request is a very confusing 
mis-fit for an intelligent person to make. 
Our grievences have all arisen because 


AND CAE 
KEEPER 


we have failed to do our whole political 
duty. Proper redress of our needs can 
only come by our united political efforts 
in every political issue. 


This Langley request is just what all 
the privileged interests have always made 
to the farmers and workers. If Mr. 
Langley was paid by said interests to 
write as he does, he could not be a much 
greater champion of privilege than his 
letters in THe Guipr prove him to be. 
I have no desire to impute insincerity, 
but however.sincere those who hold with 
our friend may be, what we have to ask 
ourselves is, ‘‘Is it wise to take the ugly— 
not to say fanatical step of joining hands 
with the fund-fixed factions who hate our 
organizations as they hate every radical 
institution or person?” 


On the other hand, why should we show 
any esteem for the two robber factions? 
We had better act a brave man’s part 
and follow our best impulses of what is 
necessary than what is expedient, as the 
rule and measure of our organization. 
For our own credit’s sake let us play the 
part of courageous and conscientious men, 
or else quietly acquiese in our enslaved 
political shackles. Grain Growers, what 
we most need to exert is our proper 
political pride and self-respect. This is 
a frightful position to take, to ask us to 
link hands with Fund-Fixed Class Rule. 
The better impulse is to “Come out from 
the unclean thing.”? The root-cause of 
our bondage is politics. Then our execu- 
tives must deal not only with our inec- 
onomic effects, but with the root-cause, 
Politics; for by virtue of refusing to deal 
with it, we are not only deceiving, but 
Mr. Langley, don’t 
be too blind to see this, by your act of 
worshipping the two-party system. which 
has developed into a one party system of 
the ins and outs. We have 70 per cent. 
of the voters, what need have we for fines- 
sing or hanging back? Because Pat- 
ronism didn’t succeed is not a sufficient 
reason why we shall turn cowards. We 
are the pepo class in Canada, and 
we should therefore see that Class Rule 
for the few out of the 5 per cent. should 


We SOWER 


Is it “brotherly love?” : 
They know that if the Co-operative . 


not be all dominant in power. The 70 
per cent. should, under our constitution 
of majority, rule—be the governing class. 
Then let us move on to the fundamental 
political education of the farmers. Let 
them be shown that Laurier and Borden 
are only monkeying with our true interests. 
That they are two bully old coons to 
serve the few special interests, the grafters 
and their co-politicians, who, in return 
for special privileges put up a purse of 
$100,000 to the Premier. 

My last word anent “Good and bad 
effects”? is, “‘Is it Mr. Langley’s pleasure 
that we shall longer continue to be mere 
hewers of wood and drawers of water 
to a handfull of specially privileged 
creatures who are mean enough to take 
tribute from every toiling man, woman 
and child of this wealthy country?” 
If it is his pleasure, then I answer he is 
committing a sin, a grievous sin against 
our organization, even though he does 
not intend so to act. 

A change of views is better late than 
never. The hideous conditions demand 
repentance. What is going to happen? 
The two Class Rule factions will go on 
just as before—only more so. They will 
receive larger and more funds, and our 
Ottawa will become a greater Paradise 
for mean business men, grafters and poli- 
ticians, than ever before. The factions 
will go on as if we had no Grain Growers’ 
Association. They will go on_ exactly 
as if nothing had happened. They will 
go to parliament buildings and leave at the 
usual hours, they will put boots on their 
intelligent feet and hats on their canny 
heads. They will take their soup and 


their appetizers hot, just as if we Grain 


Growers were getting a square deal. 
Then it will be seen that Mr. Langley is 
a poor comforter for duty shirked and 
sound maxims and principles lost, and the 
robber factions will lord it over us. 

In conclusion, my counsel is, ‘Call 
the self-interested factions to account, 
do your duty Mr. Langley; then I will 
not need to offend you with poetic or 
scriptural quotations.” 

FREDERICK KIRKHAM 
Saltcoats, Sask. 


CO-OPERATION PAYS. 
Editor, Gurpe:—Just a few more 


words on this co-operation question. - 


J. A. Beaudry, on behalf of the Canadian 
Retail Merchants Association, charac- 
terized co-operation as a failure, delusion 
and a snare. JI can’t imagine how they, 
(the C. R. M. A.) can expect the farmers 
of Canada to swallow such a pill, when 
they deliberately turn round and march 
up to Ottawa, five hundred strong, to 
protest against the passing of the Co- 
operative Bill. If co-operation is as 
they say it is, why do they take so much 
trouble and incidently spend ten thousand 
dollars to keep the farmers out of it. 
I think not. 


Bill passed through Parliament and became 


law, that it would soon stop them from.. 
fleecing the farmers and working men. | 


If it pays the C. R. M. A. to spend ten 
thousand dollars to keep the farmers and 
workingmen out of the so-called snare 
(co-operation) why it will pay the farmers. 
and workingmen ten thousand dollars 
to get themselves into such a snare. 
Just study the following figures taken 
from the last quarterly balance sheets, 


Walker Co-operative Society’ 


£ s d. 


Salesamountedto ....... 59,596 18 11 
Profts oa sc scete tas seca. TOS 48 
Quarterly dividend was 2s 9d in the £ 
Average dividend for year 2s 8d in the £ 


‘Cramlington and District Co-op. Soc. 
Sales for half year ..... 105,095 8. 8144 


June 15th, 1910 
£ 68 d 
Profit oe ae 17,009 16 7 
Interim dividend was .. 9,161 18 10 


Dividend paid on purchases was $s 2d in 
the £. 


Ashington Equitable Co-operative Soc. 


£8. dd 
Sales amounted to ...... 15,371. 9 8 
Profits amounted to.... 2,202 18 7 


Dividend of 3s. in the £ was declared. 


Ashington Industrial Co-Operative Soc. 
£ s d 

Salesamountedto .... $8,324 011% 

Dividend of 2s 10d in the £ was paid 


Gateshead Co-operative Society. 


£ s d 
Salesamountedto .... 96,901 16 4 
Dividend on purchases was 2s 8d in the £ 
During the quarter 40 claims for collec- 
tive life insurance had been paid amount- 
ing to £262 3s 7d. 


Pegsweod Co-operative Society. 


£ s d 
Salesamountedto .... 6,042 13 414 
Disposable profits were 883 13 934 


No. of members is 530 
Dividend of 8s.in the £. 


Amble Co-operative Society. 


£ s d 
Salesamountedto .... 16,057 11 3 
Dividend of 2s 8d in the pound on gro- 
ceries and 1s in the pound in the other 
departments. 


Newbiggin District Co-operative Soc. 


£ 8 d 
Salesamountedto .... 20,211 4 7 
General dividend was 2s 10 in the pound 
Butchering 3s 4d in the pound 


Now, brother farmers, read, mark, 
learn and inwardly digest the. above fig- 
ures, and you will soon come to a con- 
clusion of what kind of a failure, delu- 
sion and a snare it is, that our mutual 
friends, the C. R. M. A. are trying and 
succeeding in keeping you out of. Wake 
up, organize, and demand what is yours 
by right, and you will ultimately get it, 
but not without fighting forit. Hear what 
Fethro Junior says in the Newcastle 
Weekly Chronicle. ‘“‘The prosperity of 
agriculture may, indeed, be said to be 
largely due to co-operation. By co-oper- 
ation farmers can, by buying larger quan- 
tities, obtain feeding stuffs, manure, im- 
plements and other requisites on much 
cheaper terms than by purchasing as 
individuals, and in selling, co-operation 
can also be employed advantageously, 
especially in securing a reduction in the 
rates for. carriage, for the larger the con- 
signment the cheaper.the transit rate. 
Tothe farmer with small capital co-opera- 
tion would make many economies possi- 
ble.” Note the following instance of far- 
mers co-operating to dispose of their 
produce. 


Eastern Counties Dairy Farmers 
Co-op. Society. 

£sd 

Sales of milk and ' 
cheeseamountedto .. 33,778 0 0 

Sales of eggs amounted 233 0 0 

Net profit resulting to members was 

£606, ; : 


Quite a nice little sum to be donating 
to .the middlemen, which certainly. 
would have been done, had they, (the 
farmers), not been organized. Hear also 
what Mr. Staddart says in a paper read : 
before, the co-operative conference at 
Bittington, Durham, England, on co- 
operation as a remedy for unemployment. 
“Industry organized on co-operative 
principles should give to every true worker 
a place in the social:order, wherein the 
fulfilment of his duty, in however a. hum-: 
ble a sphere, he would feel that he ‘was 
of value in contributing to, the general 


ey 


weal, and that in turn the whole.com- - 


munity. ministered to his. individual 
welfare. The work that lies nearest. to- 
us, and meanwhile most requires to. be 
done, even though it might seem: to!en-. 


tail some sacrifice, is to effect. a closer: |: 


unity..of. the, whole, movement than-:at-:.. 


present. exists.” here dd ease ee 
This last. sentence ‘is: what-is-urgen’ 


hae 
needed in this country. --Could::you no 


June 15th, 1910 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Tribute to Goldwin Smith 


By W. D. GREGORY, President of Goronto Sun Printing Co. 


To his associates of The Sun the passing 
away of Goldwin Smith brings a deep 
sense of personal loss and leaves a blank 
which never can be filled. I am not 
speaking of his literary qualities, great 
though they were, but of those personal 
qualities which touched the life of each 
of us. His words of counsel, clear and 
strong, were always freely given. His 
splendid courage was at all times an in- 
spiration to us. For each one he ever 
showed an almost tender consideration. 
During the fourteen years that we worked 
together, I never knew him to utter a 
harsh or an impatient word. 

During the period, years ago, that I 
did most of the editorial work upon the 
Sun, I met him every week in conference. 
These conferences, where we discussed a 
wide range of subjects, afforded in them- 
selves a liberal education, and were highly 
prized by me. But it was not only for 
their educative side that I prized them. 
They revealed Goldwin Smith as a journ- 
alist. And a great journalist he was. 
No one knew better than he when to 
speak and when to keep silent; when to 
strike softly and when to strike hard. 
He was not a student of statistics, and 
in all my years of association with him 
I never saw him open a blue_ book. 
But he had a wonderful intuition for the 
facts bearing on any subject, and seldom 
made a mistake. No one could get at 
the real point of a public question as 
quickly as he could. No one could deal 
with a public question so clearly, so 
concisely and so well. Yet fully as he 
might state his attitude, or the attitude 
of The Sun, upon a public question, he 
did not make the mistake of resting there. 
He would iterate and reiterate his views, 


each time as far as possible iw a different’ 


form, until he felt that he had convinced 
his readers. 

Goldwin Smith was a thoroughgoing 
democrat. He detested flunkeyism. He 
would receive the humblest man with as 
much consideration as he would the man 


holding the highest position in the land. 
He often asked me to take up to the 
Grange any farmers who would like to 
meet him, and I often took them there. 
His conversations with them were most 
delightful. “I think,” he used to remark, 
“that they say what they think.” 

Speaking to me last year he said that, 
aside from his domestic life, nothing had 
given him so much satisfaction during 
his residence in Canada as his connection 
with The Sun. He liked to keep in touch 
through it with the farm, and in him the 
farmers of Canada have lost one who 
was their special advocate. He often 
said that he believed the farmers formed 
the soundest part of the community, 
and he never let an opportunity to pro- 
mote theig, interests pass by. 

To the ‘ast he retained his keen in- 
terest in public affairs, While it might be 
said that he was more interested in prin- 
ciples than in men, no politician ever 
stuck to his friends with greater fidelity 
than Goldwin Smith stood by his. To 
his associates he has left behind a memory 
that will ever remain with us, and which 
so long as we live, will be to us a cherished 
possession. 


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EARL GREY TO ENGLAND 


An Ottawa dispatch of June 8 says: 
“Earl and Conutess Grey left last evening 
for Quebec by special train and_ will 
to-morrow board the Royal George en 
route for Bristol. The post office depart- 
ment is sending the mail over on the same 
steamer as an experiment. The route by 
which Earl Grey will travel into the far 
north has been definitely decided upon. 
The governor-general will go by way of 
Hayes River and go on board the govern- 
ment steamer Earl Grey at York Factory. 
The trip down Hayes River will be made 
by canoe, and His Excellency and party 
will be put through by the Mounted 
Police and Indian guides. The Hayes 
River has been decided upon because the 


pertages are fewer than on the Nelson 

River. The making of all the arrange- 

ments has been Jeft in the hands of Comp- 

taller White of the Northwest Mounted 
olice. 


& & & 
DE LESSEPS WILL ATTEND 


A cable has been received by the Canad- 
ian Automobile and Aero club at Montreal 
from Count De Lesseps, who was the 
second man to cross the English Channel 
in a Bleriot monoplane stating that he 
would at once pack his machine and ship 
it to Montreal to take part in the aviation 
meet there from June 25 to July 4. De 

. Lesseps stated that he would try for the 
prizes both for long distance flights and 
speed. This means that five Wright 
bi-planes, two Bleriot monoplanes, two 
dirigible balloons and two spherical 
balloons are entered for the meet, while 
the club is now negotiating for the entry 
of a Canadian and an English bi-plane. 


MINNESOTA OFFICIAL DEAD 


Clarence Dinehart, treasurer of Minne- 
sota, died Wednesday morning at Luther 
hospital, St. Paul. He was 33 years old. 
At the bedside were his father and mother. 
Mr. Dinehart was operated upon Saturday 
for appendicitis. He rallied immediately 
from the effects and his condition was 
regarded as favorable until midnight 
Tuesday, when he suffered a sudden sinking 
spell, dying a few hours later. He was 
one of the youngest of important state 
officials and was popular throughout the 
state. 

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NEW MILLING COMPANY 


The International Milling Company, 
capitalized at $2,000,000, will enter 
Minneapolis and will maintain general 
offices there for the direction of the large 
flour milling industry now carried on. 
A mill will be built or acquired in Minne- 
apolis. They are identified with the 
New Prague Milling Company, which 
operates in New Prague, one of the largest 
plants in the country. The Saskatchewan 
Milling Company, of Moose Jaw, with 
1,000 barrels daily capacity, is controlled 
by New Prague interests. 


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SHEEP SALES 


At a meeting of the Sheep and Swine 
Breeders’ Association of Manitoba, held 
June Ist, it was decided to hold three 
auction sales the coming Fall, of grade 
sheep; one at Brandon, October 18th; 
one at Portage la Prairie, October 20th; 
and one at Winnipeg October 22nd. 

As sheep for this sale will be purchased 
by the Association and will be limited to 
yearlings and two year old ewes to be 
sold in lots of six, it will no doubt be the 
means of assisting in popularizing the 
breeding of sheep in Manitoba and eventu- 
ally help to clean up some of the farms 
that require something of this kind. The 
Association will make the purchase of 
this consignment from some of the ranges 
in Alberta, as they consider that these 
sheep will be more suitable for Manitoba 
than eastern bred sheep. 

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TO AID INSPECTORS 

The Western Canada Flour Mills 
Company of Winnipeg have issued in- 
structions to their representatives through- 
out Manitoba to afford every facility to 
the inspectors sent out by the elevator 
commission, aid them in every possible 
way while making an inspection of their 
elevators, and furnish any information 
desired. 


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CANADIAN NAVY 
It was announced, June 8,at the Marine 
Department, that tenders for ships of 
the Canadian navy will be called for in 
September next. The admiralty is send- 
ing out plans and forms of specifications 
upon which tenders will be based and there 
is a great deal of correspondence on the 
subject in progress. 
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you are wasting your own. 


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FARM MACHINERY 


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few seasons, and results have proved the necessity there was for us enter- 
The Eaton machinery is all thoroughly 
reliable, made only by firms which stand in the front rank of machine 
Every piece of machinery is absolutely guaranteed by us. 
That demonstrates our perfect confidence in the goods that bear our name. 
The low prices are the results of our exceptional buying powers and our 
policy of preferring a small rate of profit and a quick turnover to an exces- 


A LOW FARM WAGON 


A Wagon of this kind is almost indespensible on 
a farm. It is very convenient for moving machinery 
The ‘Western’ Wagon isa 
good one, strongly-built and absolutely reliable. 
Front wheels are 28 inches high, back wheels are 
30 inches, tire 4 x 3 in. Shipping weight 
475 lbs.; capacity 3,000 Ibs. Price ... $28.50 

A good illustration and desciiption of this wagon 
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It has ease of operation and 
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This mower is carried by 
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but all orders must be sent to Winnipeg. 

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BINDER TWINE 


The Eaton brands of Binder Twine are of the same splendid make as 
we have carried for several seasons, and which has given such splendid 
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Everything for the harvest should be ready 
and in working order before the big rush comes. 
Then time means money and you cannot afford to 
wait on a broken belt or a defective pump. In our 
Spring and Summer Catalogue, on page 205, will 
be found a complete list of haying and threshing 
Every article is completely guaranteed 
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We do not carry any inferior goods, and everything 
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Gentlemen:—The busy season has 
passed for a short time and until haying 
members will be in a position to take 
things a little more easily than for the last 
two months. During the resting spell 
would it not be as well to consider the 
standing of your Local Union? Have you 
done anything to push along the work of 
the U.F.A. during the first period of 1910? 
How many members have you secured 
towards that five figure mark before the 
next annual convention? I appeal to 
all members for their cordial assistance 
in carrying on the work, and to the local 
officers in particular I would ask for co- 
operation whenever possible to do so. 
If for the next few months the meetings 
are badly attended do not get discouraged, 
but just put your shoulder to the wheel 
and bring the spokes up out of the mud 
hole. The whole work has been very 
encouraging so far and with the right 
assistance we shall have no trouble in 
securing our goal before the end of the 
year. One word more on this matter, 
have you sent in your report to the Central 
yet? We shall be pleased to receive same 
at your early convenience. 


Hail Insurance 


This is the time of year when we become 
anxious about the clouds rising along 
the horizon. ‘Will they develop hail or 
blow over once more’’? will be the question 
asked in every direction and one’s thoughts 
will natural ly dwell upon the hail insurance 
question. Your executive received in- 
structions to endeavor to work out some 
feasable plan, but after the votes were 
received from the members it was found 
that chaos was still supreme on this vexed 
question and it was impossible to secure 
a majority vote on any subject. Then, 
before the question could be taken up 
again word was received from the govern- 
ment officials:‘that the rate of insurance 
would be the same this year as it was last. 
That is, the rate would be 20 cents per 
acre for $4.00 indemnity, 30 cents per 
acre for $6.00 indemnity, and 40 cents 
per acre for $8.00 indemnity. In the 
endeavor to secure all information on 
the subject, an early opportunity was 
sought to interview the government on 
the subject and the answer received to 
the question put was that the rates were 
fixed by the Legislature and on account 
of the unfortunate occurences at the last 
session of the legislature it was impossible 
to get any business done, so for that reason 
no changes were made. It was found, 
however, that the government had secured 
the services of an expert insurance actuary, 
who had been placed in complete charge 
of the province. This gentleman will make 
it his business during the coming year to 
gather as complete statistics as possible 
on this question and endeavor to ascertain 
the actual amount of loss from hail during 
the year. 

The only statistics available on this 
question to date have been those secured 
from the hail insurance business transacted 
during the year, and the proportion of 
loss to the amount insured during the past 
three years has been over 20 per cent. 
If it was thought that this was the actual 
proportion of the whole country the loss 
would be something enormous and the 
rate of insurance almost prohibitive, 
whether it be on the compulsory, co- 
operative or voluntary basis. Having 
these facts before us we should be able to 
secure some very valuable information in 
a few months time and we will then be 
ina position to discuss the question in a 
more intelligent manner, as we will have 
figures before us which will be correct. 
In the course of a long interview with 
Mr. Wright, the insurance actuary in 
charge of this business, I was shown the 
system under which he intends to work. 
The whole country will be divided into 
districts, and in every district, if there 
is any settlement to warrant it, an effort 
will be made to secure full data on the 
quantity of hail falling during the season 
and the amount, of damage done, not 
only to insured crops but to the uninsured 
areas as well, This will give the actual 


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the fallacy or otherwise of the statement - 


thet certain sections of the country are 
specially addicted to hail. I was given 
to understand that Alberta is the first 
province which has taken this matter up 
in what might be called an intelligent 
manner and with the earnest endeavor 
to secure all details. 

In the meantime I would ask all members 
to render every asistance possible and if 
they receive any enquiries relating to this 
subject not to destroy same, but to do 
everything possible to get this information 
together. I was further informed that 
it is not the intention of the government 
to abandon this business, but to secure 


all data which will enable them to place’ 


this business on a proper basis. J am 
giving you this information in detail so 
that you will see that the matter is not 
overlooked by your executive. 


The Elevator Question 


This question is coming more and more 
to the front, especially since the conviction 
of several of the terminal elevators by 
the police magistrate at Winnipeg recently. 
Several Unions have forwarded resolu- 
tions on the subject, and ‘the request has 
been made that advantage should be 
taken of the forthcoming visit of Sir 
Wilfrid Laurier to the West to again 
bring the need of government owned 
terminals to his attention. If it can be 
arranged it is likely that a deputation will 
wait upon the premier on this and other 
questions, and I would ask all Unions to 
let me have an expression of opinion on 
the subject at an early date. Get a 
resolution passed at your first meeting 
and forward it to me at once, sending same 
on a separate sheet of paper and giving 
the name of your Union, so that these 
resolutions can be presented to Sir 
Wilfrid. By this means we will probably 
be able to show him that the farmers 
of Western Canada are in earnest on 
this question. This is an _ important 
subject and I hope it will bring forth a 
speedy response. 


Internal Elevators 


The committee appointed at the annual 
convention have not dropped this subject, 
although not much has been said in regard 
to the matter lately. They have been 
waiting to secure all the opinions possible 
from the different Unions. Several have 
expressed themselves on this subject and 
all who have done so to date are strongly in 
favor of the plan proposed by the Mani- 
toba Grain Growers. To show the trend 
of opinion this way I give two of the 
resolutions which have reached me lately. 

From Tofield Union—‘‘ Whereas the 
Alberta government having consented to 
consider the petition for government 
ownership of the interior elevators pre- 
sented to them by the farmers and others 
and having asked the executive of the 
U.F.A. to appoint a committee to frame 
a memorandum to present to the govern- 
ment, in which will be laid down all the 
plan upon which the farmers would ask the 
government to take over and operate the 
interior elevators of the province, there- 
fore be it resolved that we the members 
of Tofield branch of the U.F.A. do strongly 
recommend that the government elevators 
of Alberta be acquired and operated in 
accordance with the plan laid down in the 
Manitoba Elevator Bill, with the exception 
that there be an independent commission 
appointed, as asked for by the Manitoba 
Grain Growers, and also that in considera- 
tion of the fact that a large amount of 
grain in Alberta is sold in smaller quanti- 
ties we believe that the officials to be 
placed in charge of the government 
elevators should be empowered by the 
government to buy grain from the farmers 
the same as street buyers, and be it further 
resolved that each local union of the U-F.A 
be asked to endorse this resolution.” 

From Fishburn Union—‘‘That we are 
in favor of the Elevator Bill passed by 
Manitoba government, — 
followingyamendments or additions: 


dward J. Fream, Secretary, Innisfail, Alta. 


Circular No. 5 of 19] Qs 


with the 


1.—Where there are no private grain 
buyers the commissioners shall have 
power to provide for the purchasing of 
street grain, the suggestion being that a 
man bringing a load of grain be given a 
storage ticket on which he can draw 
75 per cent. at a certain bank, and when 
this grain was shipped out the returns 
made to this bank and the balance 
credited to him. 2.—That section 21 be 
altered to read 50 per cent. instead of 
60 per cent., and a certain area defined, 
taking into consideration the railway 
facilities and the probable extension of 
same, and the settlement of the*country.” 

These resolutions show the trend of 
thought, but at the same time the com- 
mittee are anxious to secure every particle 
of information from all over the country. 
It is hoped that it will be possible to 
secure a copy of the evidence being taken 
in Saskatchewan and this, together with 
the information secured from Manitoba 
and what will be procured from the differ- 
ent parts of Alberta, will mean that the 
committee should be able to present a 
draft bill to the government which will 
be accepted without any material amend- 
ments, It is realized that this elevator 
question is an extremely important one to 
the majority of the grain growing farmers 
of the province and the committee would 
again appeal for any information that 
you may have at your disposal. 


The Cattle Question 


A movement is on foot to have certain 
sections of the country set aside for 
ranching alone and for a change in the 
leasing laws whereby closed leases can be 
secured for a term of years, also that 
during the tenure of the lease no portion 
of the leasehold will be subject to home- 
stead entry, purchase, or the terms of the 
lease in any way interfered with. An 
endeavor was made to secure further 
information on the subject, but outside 
the general statement that the ranchers 
were being forced out of business and that 
the cattle industry would be ruined unless 
some step was taken to protect the ranch- 
ers by assuring them of the fact that their 
range would not be suddenly cut off them. 
The intention was to ask for certain 
sections of the country, which have first 
been reported upon to be unfit for general 
agricultural purposes, to be set aside for 
ranching and that this land could be 
leased for a term of years at a nominal 
rental. What do you think of the idea? 
This is a question in which we should be 
interested and I shall be pleased to receive 
yiews on the subject from individual 
members as well as from the Unions. | 

While on the cattle question I might 
state that I have been placed in com- 
munication with a firm, who have been 
recommended as thoroughly reliable, who 
are prepared. to handle shipments of 
cattle on a commission basis. This firm 
ig, [ understand, in a position to handle 
shipments of all grades of cattle to the 
best possible advantage, having good 
connections on both sides of the boundary 
as well as a good outlet throughout the 
east for butcher cattle as well as stockers. 
The commission charged is at a rate per 
car and only a_ straight commission 
business is handled. I shall be pleased 
to give those who are interested in this 
question the name of this. firm and the 
rates charged, together with ar other 
information that may be available. 


The Co-operative Bill 


As you are no doubt aware, the Co- 
operative Bill presented by Mr. Lloyd 
Harriss, M.P., was defeated in committee. 
It is thought that this Bill was made the 
special target for defeat by different 
organizations which were in a position to 
handle their work in such a way that 
ressure could be brought to bear, through 
obbying, etc., to keep the Bill from 
reaching the, to them, danger- 
ous stage in the House of Commons 
This Co-operative Bill will be beneficial 
to the majority of the residents of Canada 
and arrangements are being made for 
petitions to be circulated throughout the 
provinces asking for the passage of the 
Bill at the next session. ‘These petitions 
will be forwarded¥you, weghope, at an 


June 15th, 1910 


UNITED FARMERS OF ALBERTA 


PRESIDENT: 
JAMES BOWER - - Rup Dune 
Vicu-PresipENt: 


W. J. TREGILLUS - - Canaary 


_ Sucrurary-Trwasuree: 
E.J.FREAM - - ce 


Innisfail 


Dreectors at Laras: 


James Speakman, Penhold; D. W.. 
Warner, Clover Bar; L. H. Jelliff, 
Spring Coulee. 


District Directors: 


T. H. Balaam, Vegreville; George 
Long, Namao; . H. Langston, 
Rosenroll; E Carswell, Penhold; 
J. Quinsey, Barons; E. Greisbach, 
Gleichen; A. Von Mieleicki, Calgary. 


early date, and we would request you to 
secure as many signatures to same as 
possible. By means of these petitions 
we hope to show that the majority want 
the Co-operative Bill passed. This will 
also be a matter which will be presented 
to Sir Wilfrid Laurier when he is in the 


West. 
The Pork Packing Plant 


We are still working on this question, 
which is an important one to many sections 
of the province. Even if the price of 
pork is high today that is no guarantee that 
it will remain so. Unfortunately the high 
price is making many farmers indifferent 
and they cannot see the need of the 
proposed co-operative plant. Others are 
afraid to sign, as they have not got the 
hogs in sight at present. There is no 
danger of the guarantors being called upon 
to fulfil their pledges during the present 
year, and they will have ample opportunity 
to get into the business, for after the 
required number of hogs are guaranteed 
the plant will then have to be erected, 
before the hogs will be wanted. The 
main thing just now is to get the contracts. 
In some districts they are waiting for a 
visit from the Live Stock Commissioner 
before doing anything in the business. 
Is there any need of this wait? In other 
districts they are going ahead and doing 
good work, notably among these during 
the past month being Stettler, Edwell, 
and Gaetz Valley. Some have forwarded 
agreements with certain clauses struck 
out. These are useless. Since the last 
report a large number of Unions have sent 
in agreements, some sending them direct 
to the Live Stock Commissioner and others 
forwarding them to the General Secretary. 
Either plan is suitable and any Union 
requiring contracts can secure a full 
supply from the secretary. I cannot 
give a complete list of the Unions which 
have forwarded agreements lately, but 
among those coming to hand during the 
last few weeks may be mentioned Olds, 
Bowden, Stettler, Strome, Edwell, Black- 
foot, Gaetz Valley. Lakeford, Saron, 
Namao and several others. Some will 


- think we are too persistent on this subject, 


but it is something we cannot afford to 
let rest. 
Supplies on Hand 
J have on hand a large supply of Official 
Reports of the annual convention, writing 
paper, receipt books, membership buttons, 
and constitutions, also plenty of woven 
wire fencing catalogues. I shall be 
pleased to supply you with as much as 
you will require. In regard to the annual 
reports, these should be of great help in 
interesting others to become members 
of the U.F.A. If you would like an extra 
supply kindly advise me at an early date. 
Other Resolutions 
I have received resolutions for dis- 
cussion from Edwell Union, in regard to 
the importation of eggs; Lowden Lake 
Union, relating to the securing of binder 
twine for next year; Bellcamp Union, in 
the matter of new railways; Rose View 
Union, regarding pre-emptions. I must 
apologise to the movers of these resolu- 
tions for holding them over till the next 
circular, but think this one is long enough 
for the present. These resolutions will . 
be forwarded to you next month. Solicit- 
ing your further co-operation, 
Your Obedient servant, 
EDWARD J. FREAM, Secretary 


' HIGH JRIVERJUNITED FARMERS 


. The regular meeting of the High River 
branch of the United Farmers of Alberta’ 
was held at the Town Hall on May 7, 


June 15th, 1910 


and there was a large attendance. After 
the routine business had been disposed 
of and there had been some discussion 
of the report submitted by the Committee 
on Hail Insurance, Mr. R. A. Wallace, 
who had been requested by the Union to 
make some remarks on the subject of 
Pork Packing, gave a very interesting 
talk and imparted some very valuable 
information that he had gathered while 
«a member of the committee appointed by 
the government. Mr Wallace said in 
part: 

Mr. President and Gentlemen: 


As I have not had time to write out or 
prepare an address as I would like I do 
not think I can do better than take up the 
report of the Commission, and deal 
briefly with the different findings, and 
give you our reasons for them, 

We first held meetings at several 
points in the province, taking evidence 
from producers, dealers and packers who 
had any information to offer in their line 
of business. Then in September we 
visited plants at Calgary, Edmonton, 
Winnipeg, Toronto, Collingwood, Brant- 
ford Hill, Buffalo and Chicago, where 
many courteous and instructive interviews 
were given the Commissioners. 

At our sittings at different points in 
the province the greater part of the 
evidence was given by members of the 
Farmers’ Association, at whose request 
the Commission had been appointed. 

While some were very extravagant 
in their opinion of what the government 
should do, and the amount of money that 
should be granted for the purpose, others 
were more moderate and gave in some very 
good ideas as to what might be done to 
assure the producer a fair price for his 
pork, as well that the consumer might not 
have to pay too much for his hams and 
bacon. 

I must say that for quite a time I was 
at a loss to kmow how or what to recom- 
mend, or what conclusion to come to, as 
so many different opinions were rather 
confusing, until meeting with a Mr. 
Markerberger, a Dane, who is in the 
creamery business west of Innisfail. He 
gave us an account of how co-operative 
packing plants are formed and carried on 
in Denmark. This was afterwards more 
fully gone over by a Mr. Lorensen, who 
was then in the country looking for a 
suitable location, and who had _ been 
managing director of a packing plant at 
Horsens in Denmark. If the evidence of 
both these men was printed and distrib- 
uted among members of this Association, 
it would give a good idea of how co- 
operative work might be carried on by 
farmers to their benefit. 

Mr. Lorensen gave us copies of agree- 
ments that patrons of co-operative plants 
had to sign. As he was unable to speak 
English his evidence was translated by 
Mr. Marker, Dominion Dairy Com- 
missioner. 

A co-operative plant in Denmark is not 
assisted by the government except as to 
marketing their product, and giving in- 
struction, much the same as is done by 
our Dominion Government at the present 
time. A number of farmers join together 
binding themselves under a penalty to 
supply all of their product to their own 
plant, as well as other conditions for the 
good conduct of that plant, appointing 
a board of directors from among themselves, 
and they their managing director. To 
obtain the money they are able to borrow 
from the number of small savings banks 
established in Denmark for the people 
at a low rate of interest. As security for 
this money the patrons sign a joint note, 
binding alike on each and all, to be repaid 
yearly by a small assessment on each 
pound of bacon sent out, so as to be fully 
paid up in seven years. when each patron 
then owns a share in the plant according 
to the amount of pork supplied. 

In our recommendations for the operat- 
ing of a plant in Alberta, we took this 
for our guide when possible, as you will 
see by the following six clauses, which I 
will read, and then explain:— 

1. That when a sufficient number of 
hog raisers give a reasonable assurance 
that they will supply at least 50,000 hogs 
per year to a plant, and that they will 
elect from among themselves officers 
and directors whose duty it will be to 
look after the steady supply of hogs of 
suitable quality; to decide on the amount 
of money needed from time to time to 
successfully operate the plant; to look 
after the conduct and abilities of the 
operators, your Commissioners would 


then recommend that the Government _ 


furnish the money to build, equip and 


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operate a plant, as they and the directors 
deem most advisable, so constructed as 
to admit of enlargement, and the original 
plant to have a capacity large enough to 
handle at Jeast three hundred hogs a day 
at the start; that the management take 
in the farmers’ hogs, pay them at the time 
of delivery up to two-thirds of their 
estimated value, then at regular intervals 
as may be agreed upon when sufficient 
time has elapsed to place the product on 
the market, pay the producers the balance 
of the full value of their product, less 
the cost of curing and marketing the same 
and a sum sufficient to pay local working 


expenses, such as insurance, taxes, direc-- 


tors’ remuneration, etc., also less one- 
quarter cent per pound live weight. This 
one quarter- cent per pound to be applied 
to the creation of a fund for the purpose 
of paying back to the government their 
original investment and interest thereon. 
And at the same time to allot shares to 
each patron equal to the amount paid 
into this fund by the assessment of the 
one-quarter of a cent per pound on his 
product. 

2. Your Commissioners would further 
recommend, when the Government in- 
debtedness has been finally paid off by 
this fund, that this fund be then applied 
to paying a reasonable interest to the 
patrons on the amount of shares held by 
them and take the balance to be paid as 
a bonus on each pound of pork supplied, 
shares to become transferable only to 
bona fide patrons, and then only by 
application to and with the consent of 
the directors. But in the event of re- 
moval or death of any patrons, and where 
application has not been made for such 
transfer by him or his heirs for the space 
of one year subsequent to such removal 
or death, then the directors may have 
power to cancl such shares and apply 
the proceeds to the general fund. 

8. Your Commissioners would further 
recommend that in the event of it being 
found necessary to erect additional 
plants at other points in the province, 
those patrons who wish to withdraw from 
the first existing plant, may do so, with 
the approval of the directors, they may 
affiliate, and the amount of money thus 
withdrawn from the first existing plant 
to be made by. the remaining patrons as 
before. 

As each patron would naturally wish 
the plant to be located near his special 
place of business so as to cheapen the 
freight rates paid by him, your Com- 
missioners would recommend that the 
sum total of all freight rates paid on rail- 
ways be subdivided and charged equally 
against each pound of pork supplied. 

4. To minimise the cost of buying 
hogs, regular shipping days should be 
established when the patrons could bring 
their hogs to their respective railway 
stations where the regular buying agent 
could be in attendance, and whose duty 
it would be to grade the hogs, weigh them 
and credit each patron with the amount 
due him. In some cases this might mean 
the shipping of less than carload lots 
from one station to the next to be made up 
there, but it would obviate the difficulty 
of forcing the patron to keep his hogs 
after they had arrived at the proper size, 
hence a more uniform grade could be 
secured. In Denmark the patrons are 
paid by “dead weight,” and quality of 
the hog after inspection, which method 
of payment your Commissioners consider 
worthy of careful considerarion. 

6. Your Commissioners would further 
recommend that all patrons be required 
to enter into agreement to give all the 
hogs which they wish to dispose of for 
curing purposes to the packing plant of 
the Association of which they are members. 
And any patrons who sell their hogs in 
contravention to their agreement shall 
be subject to a fine not exceeding two 
dollars for such hog sold, and that the 
directors of the Association shall have 
power to cancel the shares of such patron 
up to the amount of such fine inflicted, 
and also the power to dispose of such 
cancelled shares to any other patron, or in 
any way they think fit, and to apply the 
proceeds to the general funds of the associa-~ 
tion, In the case of over-production, or 
if the plant should be unable from any 
cause to. handle all the hogs offered, then 
the Board of Directors may give permission 
to any of the patrons to dispose of their 
hogs as they may think fit. 

6. Your commissioners would also 
recommend that the stock commissioner 
be instructed to canvass the districts 
to ascertain the probable number of hogs 
that the farmers will guarantee to supply 


When government 


and to obtain the signatures of those farm- 
ers to this agreement. 

You will note we require an assurance 
of 50,000 hogs per annum as capacity 
of plant we thought best to start with, 
also. binding the patron to sell to his 
own plant on a penalty of $2 per hog 
sold to any other party, unless he has more 
than he agreed to give such plant. That, 
at time of delivery he be paid two-thirds of 
value, the balance to be paid when pro- 
duct is sold, after deducting cost of curing, 
marketing, director’s remuneration, taxes, 
etc., also 14 of a cent per pound live weight 
to repay capital invested. 

The patrons will elect directors and 
the management of the plant to be as the 
government and these directors agree 
upon, thus giving the government a 
chance to put in a manager to work with 
the directors or to allow the directors 
to appoint their own manager as they, 
the government may see fit. 

Then, as it is not possible to get money 
at a low rate of interest in this country, 
nor would the farmers bind themselves 
for repayment as in Denmark, we asked 
the government to advance money enough 
to build, equip and operate a plant to 
be repaid by 14 cent per pound of pork 
supplied, each patron to have a share 
in the plant according to amount paid 
in way of repayment to government. 
is repaid in full 
instead of 14 cent per pound, enough is 
to be retained to pay the shareholders 
a reasonable interest on the cost of the 
plant and running expenses. 

Also, you will note that these shares 
are only transferable to bona-fide patrons 
with the consent of the directors so that 
they may not be corraled for the benefit 
of any one party or competitor. You will 
also note that should there be more hogs 
than the plant can handle, a patron may 
withdraw to support a similar plant. 

Freight rates are pooled so that a 
patron at a distance pays the same rate 
as one near by. 

We have also secured plans for a suitable 
building and cost of same, also a list 
of machinery and tools required and cost. 

As our time is now up, if you wish, 
I will go into details on these at another 
time. 

Now, gentlemen, it-is up to the farmers 
of the country to say whether this plant 
shall go on or not by agreeing to supply 
enough hogs to run it. The government 
has kept faith by voting $50,000 to make 
a start and are willing to put up the bal- 
ance required as soon as assurance is 
given that the people are in earnest by 
supplying the hogs, and when you do, 
by all means keep the full management 
and control in your own hands. There 
are surely enough capable farmers in 
Alberta to make a capable directorate 
who can secure a manager to carry on the 
business to suit themselves. I do not 
believe in any governmnet being respon- 
sible for any such business, and believe 
they have done their duty when they loan 
the money to give it a start, assist in 
instruction in breeding and procuring the 
right kind of stock and assist in marketing 


. as no doubt they will if required. 


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OKOTOKS UNION ~ 


The presence of Mr. T. L. Swift, 
manager of the Grain Growers’ Grain 
Company, Calgary Office, had been ob- 
tained for the meeting held on May 
28th. Reports of committees, etc., being 
received, Mr. Swift was introduced and 
gave us a rousing address, in the course 
of which he thoroughly exposed the meth- 
ods of the elevator company. Mr. Geo. 
Hoadley, M.P.P., also spoke. Ten new 
members signed, making a total of sixty 
to date, and a number of subscriptions 
to Tun GuipE were taken. The following 
resolution was put to the meeting and 
carried unanimously: ‘‘That, this meet- 
ing condemn privately owned elevators, 
recommending government ownership un- 
der an independent committee and com- 
mending Mr. Castle and his department 
for their action by which the elevator 
companies were recently penalized at 
Winnipeg.” The meeting adjourned until 


June 11. 
P. P, WOODBRIDGE, Sec. 
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SUNNYDALE UNION 


Sunnydale Union met on May 28 and 
discussed the hail insurance question 
at some length and eventually the follow- 
ing resolution was moved by Etheridge, 
seconded by S. B. Wood, and carried 
unanimously: ‘That the Sunnydale 


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Union No. 139 endorse the action of the 
Central committee in opposing any legis- 
lation which would enable any private 
company to go into the hail insurance 
business in the province of Alberta.”’ 
The Rose View Union resolution, regard- 
ing the Hudson’s Bay Railway was dealt 
with and it was eventually decided, owing 
to the poor attendance of members to 
leave the matter over for a more represen- 
tative meeting to fully consider. Circular 
No. 4 was read and satisfaction expressed 
with the arrangements made by the U.F.A. 
which will enable members purchasing 
woven wire fencing to effect a consider- 
able saving in money. 
FRED K. WOOD, Sec.-Treas. 


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EAST CLOVER BAR 

The East Clover Bar Union has passed 
the following resolution: ‘‘ Whereas, no 
protective tariff can possibly protect the 
farmer whose products are sold in the 
markets of the world, the prices being 
controlled by the law of supply and de- 
mand; therefore, be it resolved, that in 
the opinion of this Union the time has 
arrived for the removal of all duties 
on all farm machinery and implements 
used on the farm, and, be it further 
resolved, that a copy of this resolution 
be forwarded to the executive of the 
United Farmers of Alberta, with the re- 
quest that they will endeavor to bring 
the subject of this resolution before Sir 
Wilfrid Laurier on his Western trip 
through Alberta.” 

W: J. JACKSON, See. 

East Clover Bar Union, 

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STEEL PLANT FOR ALBERTA 

A Nelson, B. C., dispatch of June 12, 
said: ‘‘An important railway and devel- 
opment deal that has been maturing 
for the past two years has been disclosed 
by the news that St. Paul capitalists are 
about to establish a steel plant near Cow- 
ley, Alberta. Gardner and Carney Bros., 
of Kalso, are interested in the deal, having 
turned over to the syndicate the immense 
coal and iron deposits near Cowley. 
The syndicate has taken an option on the 
iron deposits for a quarter of a million. 
The ore is magnetite, and assays show it 
to. contain sixty-five per cent. of iron, 
and is admirably adapted for the manu- 
facturing of steel. 

“The St. Paul capitalists have also 
secured a charter for a railway from Butte 
to Calgary. The line has been located, 
and according to the Kaslo information, 
contracts for its construction will be let 
immediately. 

From Butte the railway will cross 
the Milk River, proceed towards Pincher, 
following the Old Man River into the 
Livingstone range, and thence running 
west will parallel the coal and iron meas- 
ures north of Cowley. North of the High 
River it will cross the Calgary and Mac- 
leod branch of the C.P.R. near Midnapore, 
and will have a terminus at South Calgary. 

The development of the iron and coal 
is the primary object and the project has 
been delayed pending the closing of the 
deal concerning these properties. The 
syndicate is said to have unlimited cap- 


ital.” 
oY ow 
GOT SIX YEARS 
Rev. George M. Atlas was sentenced 
to six years in the penitentiary Thursday 
at Toronto. Atlas is the Egyptian whose 


. trial has caused great interest in circles 


far removed from court, the charge being 
that he was the victim of persecution. 
He was convicted of theft and forgery. 
He is accused of stealing money left to 
the widow of a man named Simoff, who 
was murdered by fellow countrymen. 
He forged the woman’s receipt for money. 
She was brought all the way from Mace- 
donia, 7,000 miles, to give her evidence. 
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NOTED EDITOR DEAD 

Georges Newnes, millionaire publisher, 
proprietor of many periodicals, died at 
London, England, Wednesday. He was 
founder of the George Newnes, Limited, 
proprietor of the Strand magazine, Tid- 
Bits and other publications, was born 
March 13, 1851, at Matlock, Derbyshire, 
and educated in Yorkshire and London. 
He was created a baronet in 1895 and since 
the year 1900 has represented Swansea 
town in parliament. He was one of the 
best known editors in the English speaking 
world, his magazines having a wide cir- 
culation in the United States, Canada 
and Australia, as well as in England, 
He made his first leap into fame by found- 
ing Tid-Bits. 


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Goldwin Smith, sage, philosopher, lit- 
erary genius, philanthropist, citizen of 
the world, has taken his place “in the 
silent halls of death.” All that is mortal 
of Canada’s “‘Grand Old Man”’ has been 
gathered to his fathers but his works still 
live; his strong personality and courageous 
stand for the right, as he saw it, has been 
indelibly stamped upon the memories 
of not only the Anglo-Saxon but of the 
whole civilized world, and live forever 
on every page of his publications. 

Goldwin Smith was born an Englishman 
but the wide scope of his intellect pro- 
hibited his possession by any one nation. 
Such ‘men cannot limit their usefulness 
to any earthly boundaries. The whole 
world is better for their living and Gold- 
win Smith’s name is not for the pages 
of the history of England alone. Wher- 
ever the foot of civilized man has trodden, 
there will his name, during the ages, 
be written on the burnished tablets 
of men’s memories. He lived and died 
a British subject, but in a broader sense 
could not be deemed such. He belonged 
to every nation. 

He was a popular man, not on 
account of his opinions but rather in spite 
of them. His opinions as expressed in 
writings were not always such as to create 
a wide popularity but were always such 
as to inspire a deep respect. He did not 
crave popularity but lived for the right, 
worked for the right, and, if need had 
arisen, would have died for the right. 
But he achieved popularity. A man of 
his personality could not help but do so. 
As a Toronto newspaper man summed it 
up a few years ago: 

“There is another riddle 
for more than a generation Canadians 
have been guessing. It is the man 
Goldwin Smith. At the University Con- 
vocation last year this remarkable man 
won tumultuous plaudits from students 
whose fathers must have been at the 
public school when he became Regius 
Professor ‘of Modern History at Oxford. 
Twice during the past three months at 
a press dinner he got ‘three cheers and a 
tiger’ from men who have persistently 
antagonized his views on public questions. 
Were he to address the House of Commons 
on any subject but ‘Party Politics’ or 
‘The Canadian Question’ he would be all 
but cheered to the echo; and it is quite 
certain that if he should chose to speak 
to an audience of ministers on any topic 
but theology, he would be made the re- 
cipient of a standing vote of thanks.” 

It was as a student and writer of his- 
tory that Goldwin Smith found his place 
in the world of letters. His writings were 
not of chronological history alone but 
generally his views were taken at a poli- 
tical angle. It was his fate to generally 
find his views directly opposite to those 
of the majority. One striking instance 
of this occurred at the time of the Civil 
war in the United States, when the pre- 
dominating English view was in favor 
of the Confederates. Goldwin Smith’s 
éxpressions were all on the side of the 
North and his violent arraignment of 
negro slavery did much to overcome the 
anti-Federal feeling in England. More, 
recently his views on the Boer war 
will be generally remembered. From 
its outbreak he took the side of the South 
African Republics and his public expres- 
sions protested against the aggressions 
of the British. It is needless to say that 
these views were not very popular with 
the masses. 


Goldwin Smith’s Life 


Goldwin Smith was born on August 
18, 1828, at Reading, in Berkshire, Eng- 
land, where his father, Richard Smith, 
was a Laprieene physician of high stand- 
ing and of ample fortune. As a child he 
was conspicuous for the unusual precocity 
of his understanding and for the remark- 
able retentivity of his memory. He re- 
ceived his early education at Eton, 
from whence, in his 19th year, he was 
transferred to Christ College, Oxford, 
Not long after his matriculation he was 
elected a Demy of Magdalen College. 
As an undergraduate he took no part’ 
in the proceedings of the college debating 
societies, and seems to have had no am- 
bition to figure before the world as an 
orator; but he gained both the Ireland 
and Hertford scholarships, and the Chan- 


at which 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Canada’s Grand Old Man 


Goldwin Smith, the sage of “The Grange,” who died June 7, contributed 


much to the welfare of agriculturists. 
betterment of the lot of the farmer and toiler, he was leader. 


In all movements toward the 
Was 


one of the world’s great citizens. 


cellor’s prize for Latin verse. In 1845 
he took his baccalaureate degree and was 
placed in the first class. Two years after- 
wards he was elected to a fellowship in 
University college, and for some months 
he officiated as tutor there. In 1847, 
at the age of 24, he was called to the Bar 
of Lincoln’s Inn, and took up his abode 
in London. He never, however, engaged 
in actual practice as a barrister. 

He determined to devote himself to 
literature, and after spending a season 
in town, he returned to Oxford, where he 
was for some time a diligent student. 
His studies were specially directed to 
historical research, with a view to an im- 
portant historical work. Already his 
scholarship began to attract attention, 
and in 1850, when Lord John Russell, 
yielding to the public pressure for uni- 
versity reform, appointed a royal com- 
mission to report on certain abuses and 
disabilities at Oxford, Mr. Smith con- 
sented to act as assistant secretary. 
Later he acted as secretary of the second 
commission on the same subject. 


seldom into true poetry. He is, too, 
obviously possessed by real convictions 


and a genuine enthusiasm for moral 
greatness. These lectures have fine 
thoughts, stamped in noble words.” 


The publication of these lectures roused 
a good deal of controversy. They at- 
tacked and ridiculed the theories of 
Mr. Buckle and the Positivists with 
reference to the feasibility of reducing 
history to a science. The Positivists 
rose en masse to repel the attack, and for 
some weeks the controversy was carried 
on with great energy and determination. 


Down on Slavery 


Upon the breaking out of the American 
Civil war Goldwin Smith arrayed him- 
self on the side of the federal government. 
This fact attracted considerable attention 
at the time, when public opinion in Eng- 
land seemed overwhelmingly in favor 
of the south. He wrote extensively on 
the subject in the Daily News and else- 
where, and did much. towards enabling 
his countrymen to form a correct judgment 


Goldwin Smith and his home “ The Grange” 


In November, 1855, the Saturday 
Review made its first appearance, and for 
the first year or two of its existence 
Mr. Smith was a regular contributor 
to its columns. He wrote also for the 
Daily News—generally under his own 
signature—for the Times, and for several 
other journals both in London and in 
the provinces. In 1857 the regius pro- 
fesso1ship of modern history at the Uni- 
versity of Oxford became vacant through 
the resignation of Professor Vaughan. 
The choice of a professor lay between Mr. 
Smith and Mr. James Anthony Froude, 
a competition which thus early established 
a reputation for the future historian 
who was to spend a quiet life in Canada. 
Mr. Smith’s qualifications for the position 
were considered to be on the whole superior 
to those of Mr. Froude, and the chair 
was accordingly offered to him inthe spring 
of 1858. He entered upon the task 
with avidity, and for about eight years 
performed the duties of the position 
with credit to himself and to the uni- 
versity. 

In 1861 he published several of the most 
remarkable of his professional addresses 
under the title “Lectures on the Study 
of History.”’ “There were differences of 
opinion as to the conclusions reached, 
but all agreed as to the author’s sincerity, 
earnestness and mastery of the Knglish 
language. The Westminster Review, in 
prefacing its criticism, said: ‘‘Mr. Gold- 
win Smith is clearly master of a power 
of expression which has scarcely a rival 
among us. His language has a native 
strength and purity which rises no. 


as to the real merits of the struggle. 
In 1863 he published a pamphlet called 
“Does the Bible Sanction Slavery?” 
in which the negro question was vigor- 
ously discussed. Another pamphlet which 
attracted considerable notice was “On 
the Morality of the Emancipation Proc- 
lamation.” } 


. In 1864 he for the first time crossed the 
Atlantic and paid a visit to the United 
States. He was given an enthusiastic 
welcome by the Union club, New York, 
and everywhere received with favor and 
hospitality as he travelled through the 
Northern States, studying the working of 
a Republic in difficulties. During his 
visit Brown University of Providence 
conferred on him the honorary degree of 
L.L.D. In 1882 he was honored with 
the degree of D.C.L. from the University 
of Oxford, and again in 1896 by L.L.D. 
from Princeton. In 1894 his Oxford 
friends in Toronto commissioned Mr. 
Wylie Grier to paint a portrait of him, 
which was hung in the Bodleian library. 


Shortly after his return to England 
the Jamaica massacres occurred, arid Mr. 
Smith took an active part in the subse- 
quent agitation. He prepared a series 
of lectures on Pym, Cromwell and Pitt— 
lectures replete with telling allusions 
to the Jamaica massacres and their 
defenders. These were delivered before 
many appreciative audiences in the north 
of England, the proceeds being devoted to 
a fund for the prosecution of ex-Governor 
Eyre. Subsequently the lectures were 
published in one woluinis, “Three English 


June 15th, 1910. 


, 


Statesmen,’ and have run through many 
editions in England and America. 


His American Career 


In 1866, in consequence of severe 
injuries received in a railway accident, 
Mr. Smith’s father began to suffer from 
a long and painful illness, which required 
the constant and watchful attendance of 
his son, He resigned his Oxford pro- 
fessorship, and during the succeeding 18 
months his attendance upon his father 
was unremitting. Upon the latter’s death 
in 1868, Mr. Smith found himself without 
occupation. The chair of English and 
constitutional history in the new Cornell 
University at Ithaca, N.Y., was offered to 
him, and after some deliberation he accept- 
ed it. His English Liberal friends were 
loath to Jose him, and it is understood 
they offered him the nomination of a safe 
constituency, but he refused to stay. 
He presented Cornell with his library 
and entered upon his duties at once. 
In 1871, having changed his post for that 
of a non-resident professor, he removed 
to Toronto, where he made his home for 
the rest of his life. 


Came to Canada 


Shortly after his settlement in Toronto 
Mr. Smith was appointed a member of 
the senate of the University of Toronto, 
which position he held until 1876. He 
was also in 1874 elected the first president 
of the council of public instruction, and 
was for two years president of the Pro- 
vincial Teachers’ Association. These and 
other offices were the beginning of a long 
life of activity in which he liberally con- 
tributed to the literature of history and 
contemporary discussion, to the social 
and intellectual life of his adopted city, 
and to the charities of those so unfortunate 
as to need assistance. 

In 1875 he married Harriet, widow 
of the late W. H. Boulton of ‘‘The 
Grange,” and made that splendid mansion 
his home for the rest of his years in this 
city. In 1872 he practically assumed the 
editorship of the Canadian ‘Monthly, 
contributing a column of discussion 
on current events, and retained the posi- 
tion for two years, when he resigned. 
He was also for some time, commencing 
in 1874, editor of The Nation, a weekly 
journal devoted to literature and politics, 
which ceased to appear in September, 
1876. In 1880 he founded a periodical 
called the Bystander, in which he made 
known his views to the public. In 1884 
he founded The Week and contributed 
to its interesting pages until 1887. 

Mr. Smith was first president of the 
National club, Toronto. He also served 
as vice-president of the Canadian Land 
Law Amendment Association. President 
of the Modern Language association, 
chairman of the Loyal and Patriotic 
union formed in Canada against home rule 
for Ireland, president of the Liberal 
Temperance union (in opposition to the 
Scott. Act) and chairman of the Citizens’ 
committee, Toronto, having for its object 
municipal reform, both in elections and 
in legislation. He held for some time 
after its formation in 1882 a 
fellowship in the Royal Society of Cana- 
da. He also took a constant interest 
in charitable work, contributing in 1903 
a home for the Nursing Mission, and gave 
large sums for the Convocation hall pro- 
posed for the University of Toronto. 


Services to the Public 


His life in Toronto in brief mingled 
with literary labor of the highest class 
continuous effort for the moral, social 
and intellectual advancement of the com- 
munity. He unselfishly lent his great 
abilities to the promotion of many move- 
ments having for their object the uplifting 
and broadening of Canadian life. He 
seldom spoke in public, but when persuad- 
ed to do so he invariably charmed his 
audiences by his rapid flow of the finest 
English, unbroken by references to notes, 
and filled with a wealth of literary and 
historical allusions and anecdote drawn 
from the incomparable stores of the mem- 
ory of a busy life. 


Home Life 


The home and home life of Goldwin 
Smith were ever ideal. Though situated 
Continued on page 23 


June 15th, 1910 


Want, Sale and 


Exchange 


All advertisements under this heading will be 
charged for at the rate of 2c. per word per in- 
sertion; six insertions given for the price of five. 


SEED GRAIN FOR SALE 


FOR SALE-—ABUNDANCE SEED OATS, 
grown from Garton Seed, cleaned and bagged, 
$2.00 a _cwt. f.o.b. Girvin.—Hazelton Bros., 
Girvin, Sask. 84* 


NATIVE SPRUCE TREES FOR SALE.— 
Average size, 15 inches; $1.00 per dozen, or 
$7.00 per hundred prepaid. —Thos. Fry, Canora, 
Sask. 41-6 


SCRIP FOR SALE AND WANTED 
SOUTH AFRICAN WARRANTS FOR SALE: 


. THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY 


Cards under this heading will be inserted weekly 
at the rate of $4.00 per line, per year. No card 
peoepten for less than six months, or less space than 
two lines. 


Under this heading should appear the names of 
every breeder of Live Stock in the West. Buyers 
and Breeders everywhere, as you are well aware, 
are constantly on the lookout for additions to 
their herds, or the exchange of some particular 
animal, and as Tur Guipe is now recognized as 
the best market authority, and in every way the 
most reliable journal working in the interests of 
the West, nothing is more natural than for you to 
seek in its columns for the names of reliable men 
to deal with when buying stock. 

Consider the smallness of the cost of carrying 
a card in this column compared with the results 
that are sure to follow, and make up your mind 
to send us your card to-day. 


Stock for Sale. —G. A. Hope, Wadena, Sask. 


320 ACRES, 1144 MILES FROM TOWN, AND . 
only 35 miles from Winnipeg. 210 acres in 
crop for the first time, the balance can all be 
steam plowed, Buildings consist of a new house 
and barn, shingle roof. The price including half 
the growing crop $25.00 per acre for quick sale. 

2560 acres of guaranteed first 


town on Goose Lake line, all broken, 100 acres 
summer fallow; sold with or without crop.— 
Apply, Jno. Douglas, Creekfield, Sask. 45-4 


FOR SALE, EAST HALF OF SECTION 4-32-4 
west of 2nd M.; six miles from market; 140 
acres in crop; good buildings and water; price 
$5,000; terms on application.—Apply to Ewald 
Geck or Jas. H. Herron, Canora, Sask. 45-6 


BETTER THAN HOMESTEADING. — FOR 
Sale, $20 acres in the Swan River Valley, Mani- 
toba, 414 miles from town and station; 40 acres 
cultivated, 40 acres meadow, balance semi-scrub 
and poplar; 34 fenced; Big Woody river touches 
corner; always an abundance of good water, fish 
and fuel; lumber granary, 15 x 20 x 12; rich 
black loam; near school and town; good graded 
roads; | good district, “where the winter wheat 
grows”; a first-class creamery in operation; price 
$15.00 per acre; $1,000cash, balance easy to good 
man; no principal till Nov., 1912; also an unim- 
proved Fd at yet tg acre; $500 cash, balance 

hos. L. Swift, clo. The Grain Growers’ 

46-6 


A. D. McDONALD, BREEDER OF PURE BRED 
Yorkshires and pure bred Shorthorns; young 
Bulls for Sale. —Sunnyside Stock Farm, Napinka, 

an, 


HEREFORD CATTLE AND SHETLAND PONIES 
J. E. Marples, Poplar Park Farm, Hartney, Man, 


SUFFOLK HORSES.—JAQUES poe IM- 


20 SHORTHORN HEIFERS, $40 to $60 each; 
2 Clydesdale Colts cheap; Yorkshire Pigs, $8 
each; best strains of breeding. —J. Bousfield, 
Macgregor, Man. 18* 


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DOGS FOR SALE 


SEVEN FINE WOLFHOUND PUPS. ALL 
dogs, height of parents, 82inches. Very fast and 
sure killers. Price $6.00 each.—Alex. Robertson, 
Kenton, Man. - 


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| Through the Guide 


The following advertisement appears in the Teacher 
Wanted column of this week’s issue of The Guide, and shows that 
the School Boards are realizing the value of The Guide as a “Teacher 


oughen, .Sec.-Treasurer, Dauphin, 


’ 


These farmers’ homes are the 
Consequently 


the important 


Growing Some 


Uncle Sam—“The cause of cloud- 
bursts in my country is the ‘wheat- 
Grows so high that it pokes holes in the 
clouds and lets the water out.” 


We're All Right 


Sir Ernest Shackleton, in a recent 
interview, expressed the opinion that not 
only the future, but the immediate future, 
of Canada presented bright prospects.— 
News Item. 


Oh, shout it from the tall house tops, 
The glad news spread around; 

The Polar man has said his say, 
We know we’re good and sound. 

He told us gently where we’re at, 
Turned darkness into light; 

And tho’ we sometimes were in doubt, 
Shack shows us that we’re right. 


Jack Canuck—‘‘ Our wheat grows some, 
too, and grows so high that it also pokes 
holes in the clouds; but it doesn’t hurt us.’ 

Uncle Sam-——‘“‘ But don’t you get flooded 
out?” 


Jack—“Oh no. It’s so far away that 
the “burst” drops on the next planet.” 


percent 
Aerie 
wakes ‘ee \ 


termina | 
ELEVATOR 


So up the flag-pole lightly skim, 
And from its summit roar— 

“Come every mother’s son of you, 
In at the open door!” 

The goodly thing be forthwith in, 
The future’s unco’ bright; 

For Shackleton is Ernest, Sir! 
You’re bound to come out right. 


Se te fe 
Why Willie Had The Blues 


“How old is kitty, Pop?” 

““Two years old.” 

“And how old am I?” 

“Four years.” 

“Well, what do you think of that! 
Kitty has whiskers and I haven't the 
first sign of any yet.” 


A Wheat Double 


Mr. Wheat—“Now, darling, we are 
made one.” 

Mrs. Wheat—“Yes! But don’t forget 
that I am the better half.” 


Despair 
Canned Pup—‘‘Gee! but I am misera- 
able.” 


How About a Good Back View, 


‘Auntie Liz had a hard time having 
her picture taken today,” said her nephew 
who had just opened a_ photographic 
studio and had very courteously asked 
his aunt to come and pose for a new 
picture. 

“Why, what was the trouble?” asked 
his brother. 

“*Well, you see, when I told her to look 
pleasant she didn’t look natural, and 
when I told her to look natural she didn’t 
look pleasant.” 


Apropos of the Weather 
Old Sol—“‘ Now, 


you’ve 
please 


Aquarius, 
damped things long enough, 


allow me to shine.” 
Se oe 
TEDDY’S HIKED FOR HOME 


The ‘big smoke’s’”’ flat and deadly dull, 
Old London’s lost it’s vim, 

For Teddy’s floated out to sea 
In a galleon taut and trim. 

The “‘noise’’ has faded from the land, 
The “big sticks” ’ packed away; 

“Farewell!” said Ted, “A fond Farewell!” 
—And then he ceased to stay. 


From Hudson’s sloping pebbled beach 
The Sam and Samlets gaze, 

To sight the gilded carack when— 
It glideth from the haze. 

And New York’s neck, it gargling is, 
With salt and zeal and zest, 

In preparation for a squeal 
Of ‘‘ Welcome to the West!” 


Now let the cannon cease it’s roar, 
“Insurgents” woodwards get; 

Bill Taft please take a backward seat 
For Ed the pace will set. 

“Avaunt the ball game, Hang the fight 
Twixt Jeff and big black Jack, 

Upon our little world’s writ big— 
“Old Ted is coming back!” 


. “A Terminal Investigation’”’ 


THH E[GRAIN[GRIO,WERS’ GUIDE 


The Elevator Commission 


At the various sittings of the Elevator 
Commission in Saskatchewan representa- 
tives of several different associations 
have appeared, and generally their state- 
ments show a strong, dominant feeling 
that the present condition of affairs calls 
for the intervention of. the government 
and the adoption of some general principle 
capable of universality of application, 
which will inspire confidence on the part 
of the public and stop the agitation, and 
secure to farmers the measure of relief 
they are seeking. 

At Moose Jaw the Grain Growers’ 
executive appeared before the commission. 
At Weyburn their forces were marshalled 
by Frank Shepherd, an ex-director, and 
A. J. Bradley, of Milestone. At Carlyle, 
President F. M. Gates and C. A. Burr, 
of Manor. 
and A. G. Hawkes, executive officers, and 
Jas. Robinson, of Walpole, director. 


At Wolseley, by E. A. Partridge, A. G. . 


Hawkes, and Levi Thomson, who appeared 
for the local association. At Indian 
Head, by A. E. Wilson, president of the 
local association, and who is also Reeve 
of the municipality. 

We are enclosing a report of a part of 
the conversation between the commis- 
sioners and a witness at Wolseley, which 
same witness had expressed himself 
as opposed to government ownership, 
and was recalled by the commission. 

The following is reported by a listener, 
and may be of interest to your readers. 


SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 


Moose Jaw, June 9. 


Commissioner. I understood you to 
say yesterday, that you believed there 
was a better condition in marketing grain 
than prevailed a few years ago; amounting 
in value to the farmer to the extent 
of five or six cents per bushel. 


Witness. Yes. 


C. What do you mean? A general 
rise in grain values, as contpared with the 
price farmers’ get and the ultimate 
market price? 

W. Yes, I mean we get five or six 
cents per bushel closer now to the values 
on the ultimate market than we did 
formerly. 

C. To what do you attribute this 
bettered condition? 

W. Well, it is largely due to the or- 
ganized farmers’ agitation. 

C. What form has the bettered con- 
ditions assumed? 

W. Better and more loading plat- 
forms. Better transportation facilities. 
Closing up of spread between street and 
track wheat. 

C. You credit the farmers’ organiza- 
tions with this? 

W. Yes, largely. 

C. Has it been a general benefit to 
all producers, whether they were mem- 
bers of the organization or not? 

. Yes, and even wider than that. 
I think the whole country has been bene- 
fitted. 

C. Yes, now, if all have received a 
general benefit, do you not think all 
should be willing to share in the cost 
of securing a still better condition? 

W. Yes, if it can be done. 

C. I suppose you believe we have a 
monopoly of the elevator system? 

W. I believe we have a strong com- 
bine in the trade. 

C. You believe that combine has 
several special opportunities as a con- 
sequence of their combination? 

. Oh, yes! 
C. You believe they will use their 


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made by which the executive of & 
the Grain Growers’ Association 
will meet the elevator commis- 
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strong position for all it is worth to en- 
hance their own interests? 

W. Certainly. 

C. Do you believe that the whole 
elevator system in vogue is a charge on 
the grain passing through it? 

W. Ido not understand. 

C. Do you think grain dealers look 
on the present elevator system as a con- 
venient place through which to spend their 
pocket money? 

. Oh, no! 

C. Then you believe they get pay for 
building and operation some way out of 
the grain trade? 

W. Certainly. 

C. You do not doubt but that the 
producers will have that charge to pay? 

They certainly will. 

C. Then the combine must have some 
method by which they extract full cost 
as well as their profits? 

W. Certainly. But I do not just 
know what you mean by “extract.” 

C. Well, they in some way get enough 
to make it pay. 

Sure. 

C. Have you ever carefully con- 

sidered the various ways dealers have of 


C. Well, do so now. Suppose the 
average dockage at the hands of Mr. 
Horn is 2 per cent. What would that be? 

W. 2,000,000 bushels. 

C. Quite a formidable amount. What 
would that be worth? 

W. Sixty cents per bushel, I think. 

C. Athome? 

W. Yes, because most of that has been 
cleaned once and represents commercial 
screenings. 

C. Why, that would amount to the 
enormous sum of $1,200,000. 

W. Yes. And we pay freight on that 
on the average of ten cents per bushel, 
which would be a further sum of $200,000. 

C. And you claim this $1,400,000 is a 
direct loss or charge on the farmers, 
and a source of income to the grain dealers? 

W. Certainly. But I did not think 
that we had that much grain to ship 
in this province. 

Do you think we soon will have 
that amount? 

W. Yes. 

C. Have you considered the opportunity 
offered to the elevators in the grading 
system? 

W. How? 

C. The opportunity to utilize grain 
above and below a grade line, and from 
the farmers’ wagons build a grade in a 


THE HON. GEORGE P. GRAHAM’S REPLY 


I have your letter of the 25th inst., enclosing copy of a resolution passed 
by the executive of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Association at a meeting 


held in Moose Jaw, in reference to the proposed Hudson Bay Railway. 


I assure 


you there has been no inadequate appropriation and no unnecessary delay in 


connection with this project. 


It is a very large one and very important to the 


people of this country. As the line will cost many millions of dollars the govern- 
ment is anxious to have the project a great success, and to this end think it nec- 


essary to exercise the greatest care at every step. 


The opinions as to which 


should be the port, Nelson or Churchill, are varied and the government are sending 
a steamer up through the straits this year to obtain more information on this 


point. 


However, we are confident that when the House meets, a few months hence, 


a proposal for the construction of the line will be placed before parliament. 
In the meantime, I hope in a few days to ask for tenders for the construction 
of a bridge over the Saskatchewan, so that when the contract for the building 
of the line is let the work may be pushed forward with all speed. The total 


appropriation this year is $680,000. 


Yours truly, 


GEO. P. GRAHAM. 


Office of the Minister of Railways and Canals, Ottawa. 


making gain on grain as it passes through 
the various channels between the farmers’ 
wagons and the ulitmate market? 

W. I don’t know that I have. 

C. You said yesterday that you be- 
lieved the track price of wheat was fixed 
by the Winnipeg Grain Exchange? 

W. Yes 


C. You said you believed that price 
closely followed the world’s market price? 

W. Yes. 

C. I think you said within one-half 
a cent? 

W. Yes. 

C. That is, that track price is approxi- 
mately usually within one-half a cent 
of the world’s price on the ultimate mar- 
ket, less cost of sending it there? 

Yes. 

C. Suppose it can be shown that 
elevators as a whole will not pay as 
purely gathering houses, that is, that 134 
cents per bushel on all the grain passing 
through the whole elevator system will 
not pay interest and sinking fund nec- 
essary to pay for the houses in twenty 
years, together with operating and upkeep 
charges? 

W. I think it will pay. 

C. Have you done any calculating 
along that line? 
W. No. I cannot say that I have. 

C. Well, if it is shown to you that 
there is a straight loss on this part of the 
business, where would you think it possible 
for elevator men to make good? 

W. Grades and dockages, I suppose. 

C. Anything else? : 

W. I do not know. 

C. Have you tried to calculate what 
the value of this dockage would be on a 
hee punta ne bushels output? 

. No. 


bin so that it will just pass inspection. 
In other words, do in taking in grain 
into the terminal elevators just what you 
have heard of being done at the terminals 
in putting grain out. Mr. Gibbs inspect- 
ing output of terminals. Mr. Horn 
inspecting out of internal elevators. 

W. I have not thought of that. 

C. Suppose you think of it when you 
go home, and think of the effect of a line 
of wheat going forward instead of the 
average grades; and the money making 
power this gives elevators. 

W. They might lose grades doing 
that. 

C. Would not the loss of grain be in 
the deal made with the farmer, and not 
altogether on the way the grain was bin- 
ned? 

W. Perhaps. 

C. Have you considered the insurance 
question and the chance to make money 
out of it? 

W. No. 

C. The commission question? 

W. No. 

C. -Suppose Saskatchewan farmers all 
paid one cent per bushel to a Winnipeg 
firm to sell this 100,000,000 bushels for 
them, what would that amount to? 

W. $1,000,000. 


C. Suppose it cost one-half of that to ° 


do the clerical work in connection with 
that, would you conclude that they had 
become philanthropists? 

0. 


C. What then? 

W. That they must have some other 
way of making up that loss. 

C. Do you know anything of hew 
money can be made on farming eut space 


_on steamships? 


W. No. 


June 15th, 1910 


SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 


Honorary Presipent: 
E. N. HOPKINS - - Moossz Jaw 


PRESIDENT : 
F.M. GATES - -  -. Finumors 
Vicz-PRESIDENT: 
J. A. MURRAY - - Wapxrna 
, Secrerary-TREASURER: 


FRED. W.GREEN - Meose Jaw 
Directors at Lares: 

E. A. Partridge, Sintaluta; George 
Langley, Maymont; F. W. Green, 
Moose Jaw; F.C. Tate, Grand Coulee; 
A. G. Hawkes, Percival; Wm. Noble, 
Oxbow. 


Districr Directors : 

James Robinson, Walpole; J. A. 
Maharg, Moose Jaw; Charles Dunn- 
ing, Beaverdale; John Evans, Nutana, 
Dr. T. Hill, Kinley; Thos. Cochrane, 
Melfort; Andrew Knox, Colleston; 
George Boerma, North Battleford. 


C. Now, suppose a dealer runs his 


elevators for years at a loss. He does 
commission work at Jess than cost. He 
pays track price for grain, which is really 


the world’s floating price established 
by a free open competition. What would 
happen him? 


W. He would go broke. 


_ C._ Suppose the first two were estab- 
lished as facts, what would you conclude 
about the third re track price? 

W. I would think that worth looking 
into. 

C. Do you think this question big 
enough to engage the attention of our 
government? 


W. Yes. 


C. Do you think an individual or a 
small company can cope with it? 

W. No. 

C. If the commission business can be 
done at even 14 cent per bushel, would not 
Saskatchewan farmers be justified in 
trying to save that three-quarters of a 
million dollars? 

W. I do not see how it can be done. 

C. Do you think Saskatchewan should 
be subject to a condition whereby a 
combine in a neighboring province can 
hold her up for three-quarters of a million 
dollars, or more at will? 

W. No. 


C. If that can be shown, would not 
you be willing to have the provincial 
government come to the rescue? 

W. Yes. 

C. If this province could save to our 
people, more out of three crops than would 
pay for the whole elevator system and set 
the farmers of the province free from this 
foreign combine, should it be done? 

W. I think so, but I question if it can. 

C. Do you think the wheat industry 
of Saskatchewan is as important to our 
people as is the iron, steel, coal and timber 
to other provinces? 

W. Yes, I think it is. 

C. And as worthy of protection and 
parental care on the part of the people 
and the government? 

W. Yes, I think it is. : 

C. Do you know how much grain 
was shipped at Wolseley this year? 

- No. 
C. Did you think that approximately 
one-third of it passed over the loading 
platform? 

W. I did not know just how much, 
but I know a lot was loaded there. 

C. Did you know that the smallest 
elevator you have here shipped about one- 
third of your crop at this point? 

W. No. 

C. Do you not think it a strange 
state of affairs when the loading platform 
gets one-third, the smallest elevator gets 
one-third, and the other six elevators get 
only one-third? Don’t you think an 
adjustment, is needed when six men with 
up-to-date machinery are sitting smoking 
and reading while the people shovel their 
grain over the loading platform? 

W. I do not know. You are giving 
evidence now. 

C. Yes, I am drawing your attention 
to the state of affairs at your own shipping 
point. You had better think it over. 


June 15th, 1910 


GETTING INTO POLITICS 


Below is an interesting letter we have 
received. The writer wishes his name 
withheld, having no desire for notoriety: 

I sat listening to a conversation in a 
hotel corridor carried on between two 
farmers. One was the picture of health 
and strength. His head was well poised. 
Holding his eye-glass in his left hand, 
and pointing the index finger of his right 
at his companion, who by the way looked 
a little scared, said: ‘I tell you this 
Elevator proposition is a serious question. 
I may say the largest question this Pro- 
vince has yet had to deal with. The first 
thing is to create an interior receiving 
elevator system where the weighing, 
grading and binning will be in the hands 
of an entirely trustworthy intermediary, 
who has no mercenary interest in the 
commodity and is in no way under the 
control of either buyer or seller. One 
who will guard the rights of individual 
shippers and protect the commodity 
and the elevator system, and sacredly 
keep it as free from manipulation by 
shippers as well as dealers.” 


“Yes,” said the other, “I saw a report 
in the paper that a neighbor of yours is 
proposing a sort of a co-operative company, 
similar to the Grain Growers’ Grain Co., 
to own and operate a line of elevators 
and that the government loan them cheap 
money, the farmers to pay an amount 
in cash equal to one-fourth of the cost, 
and give the government security on 
building, as_ well as a guarantee to use 
and manage it.” 

“Yes,” said the man with the specks, 
“how does that appeal to you?”’ 

“Not very well,” replied the other. 

“Why?” asked he with the specks. 

“Well, it will not be sufficient to re- 
place the present system. By one con- 
trolled by a strong faction or section of 
Grain Growers you leave the weak to 
suffer as before, and leave the whole 
grain trade in the hands of the same body 
of monopolistic operators as now con- 
trol it. It will not be satisfactory for 
the Saskatchewan government or Sask- 
atchewan farmers to run a system of 
elevators and do the general dusty work, 
and then turn the spout right into the 
bin of the same outfit we refused to sell 
a wagon-load to at the shipping point. 
More than that. You say 12,000 Grain 
Growers are not qualified to speak for 
the whole of the farmers of the Province. 
But if that is so, what shall be said of a 
plan which would give into their hands, 
an opportunity of getting possession 
of the whole elevator system to run it 
for their special benefit. The govern- 
ment might well be glad of the opening 
they now have to get a controlling hand 
on this most gigantic bread basket. 
Besides such a proposition looks as_ if 
it might be open to the charge of being 
a mere trick to quiet agitation and shift 
responsibility, and leave us in a case of 
‘as you were before.” No, it won’t 
do. We have got to have the government 
prestige and power with us or we cannot 
win out.” 

And they went on to smoke over it. 
Not minding smoke, and being a farmer 
myself and interested in their conversation 
I followed it. As I expected, just as soon 
as they had settled down spasmodically 
sucking their amber colored idols the big 
farmer, who had put his specks away, 
broke out again. 

“You said just now that my neighbor’s 
proposition (I do not remember your 
exact words), smacked of trickery. Well, 
now, while I do not agree with you on 
that, still I will be frank with you. You 
know I am something of a politician 
as well as a farmer. I make no effort 
to conceal that fact, and you must know 
that a politician will always measure 
up in his mind, before he says anything, 
what forces are likely to be opposed to him, 
and how it will effect his party. Because, 
said he, I believe in party government, 
and anything that would injure my party 
would injure my country. So first, 
I must consider how a thing will effect 
my party. You understand, he went 
on, it is the duty of an opposition to oppose 
I do not expect them to co-operate. 
I expect antagonism from them. An 
opposition which does not oppose is no 
good. There are the best men in the 
world in our Legislature for honor and 
intelligence, and for wisdom and integ- 
rity they will compare with any body ef 
men in the land. And while this pre- 
position is not what the farmers asked 
for I think it will be a great deal more 
acceptable to the party.” 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


“Party be hanged,” said the ether 
“we want a Bill put threugh that will 
meet the ease.’ 

“Oh! well, don’t yeu make any mis- 
take,’’ said our first speaker, “I have seen 
politics from the inside as well as from the 
outside, and I can tell you that parties 
won’t be hanged. You have to get your 
bill from a party, and you have to make 
it look as though it will not do that party 
any harm before that party will touch 
it. Don’t you see that? You must 
convince the party that your little scheme 
will not hang the party.” 

“Why, that is getting it into politics,” 
said the other with a jerk of his neck. 

“You bet, and it has got to get into 
politics.” said the big fellow. 

Just then I had to leave. 

SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN 
GRO ERe ASSOCIATION. 
‘er—— 


Me Me aM 
Ke e, 


SASKATCHEWAN WILL MEET 
PREMIER. 


I have just written a letter to Tux 
Gus asking them to publish and advise 
the executives of the three provinces to 
notify all thelocal associations of the Grain 
Growers that Sir Wilfred Laurier and 
some of his cabinetis to visit the Western 
provinces next month, and ask them to 
hold meetings to discuss the advisability 
of sending large delegations to meet Sir 
Wilfred and his company at each town 
where he holds a meeting. The executive 
should hire the largest hall in each town, 
and as quick as you can get the date that 
Sir Wilfred will be in each town, advertise 
the Grain Growers’ meeting. Have some 
of your best posted and ablest speakers 
on hand, and invite Sir Wilfred and his 
company to attend your meeting. The 
speaker in opening the meeting wants 
to give Sir Wilfred to clearly understand 
that the farmers are the majority of the 
population of Canada, and for any coun- 


OHIAIssIsysagsydy soy ooo wy 


ARELEE ANNUAL PICNIC 
The Grain Growers of Arelee 
have arranged to hold their 
annual picnic and sports’ day 
on July 6, at the Arelee school. 
A dancing platform will be built 
and a good program has been ar- 
ranged for the sports. An agent 
of Tur Grain Growers’ GuiIpE 
will be present to take subscrip- 
_tions and renewals. It is ex- 
pected that this picnic will be 
one of the most successful ever 
held in this district. 


SSSSSSeSSSSSeees 
SSESSSSSEESESESEEE 


WIAs ys os oy oo ow oy & 


try to have a_ successful government 
it must legislate just and fair laws for the 
producers, and no special privilege laws 
for the corporations. Make all your de- 
mands clear and with all the strength 
possible. I wish youto show up the ter- 
minal elevators and demand that. the 
government take them over and operate 
them with fairness to the Grain Growers. 
Demand free trade on all the necessities 
of the producers. Also the immediate 
building of the Hudson Bay Railway. 
As you will remember, that was the main 
issue ef the last Dominion elections. 
“Elect the Laurier party and the Hudson 
Bay Railway will be built.””. Now we 
want to held Sir Wilfred Laurier and his 
party to their promises. 

I wish te say I think at each of those 
meetings enough meney ‘ceuld be raised 
from the delegates to pay fer the hall 
at each tewn where we would meet. 
I will say that if you can arrange for a 
meeting at Saskateon, and cannot raise 
enough money to pay for the hall, I will 
furnish you with the balance; and sooner 
than not have a meeting at all, I will 
pay for the hall at Saskatoon. 

THOS. LAWRENCE 
Hanley, Sask. 


me & oS 
TO LOCAL SECRETARIES 

As yeu are aware, we very often find 
it necessary to issue a cireular toe our 
Associations. Now, as a general rule, 
we only get a reply from about two-thirds 
of the Associations on our list. The 
remainder may be asleep, hypnotized, 
or dead, for all we know; and it is with a 
view of finding out what the standing of 
our Associations is that we issue this 
eireular. It is not necessary to call a 
meeting to amswer these questions. It 
will net take five minutes of your time. 
Kindly fill in answers to the enclosed list 


ef questions. We give you until JULY 
15th te return this to us. Remember, 
any who do not reply before that date will 
be eut off our list of associations. 
Trusting you will give this prompt 
attention, we remain, 
THE SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 


IMPORTANT. Return this before July15 
Name of Association. ..........000000 0% 
President oie ee ee pee Bere 
Secretary Gore ee I ae os 
When Organized .......... 00-00 e ee eee 
Number of members (Life and Annual). . 
Exact Location of your Association ...... 


Remarks re the General Condition of 
your Association and Future Prospects. .. 


Re Convention Reports. 


About the last of March or the first 
of April we forwarded to you, direct from 
the publishers, 25 copies of our Convention 
reports, and which we billed to you at 
$1.25, or 5c each. A large number of 
our Associations have remitted for these, 
but there are still a great many out- 
standing. We cannot see why any 
of your.members should refuse to pay 
five cents each for these. If they paid 
according to the time and labor expended 
on them, they would pay much more than 
five cents each. Every wide-awake mem- 
ber of your Association should have one 
of these reports on file each year for refer- 
ence. If your menbers do not care for 
them, we would suggest that you dis- 
tribute them to non-members, and in 
that case they are well worth the small 
sum of $1.25, for we feel sure that any 
person not a member, after reading one 
of them, will become one. Our income 
is getting less and less all the time, while 
our expenses are just as heavy. So we 
would kindly ask you to help the Central 
along in its work by remitting the $1.25 
due for these reports. Your early at- 
tention to this is requested. 

THE SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 


CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY. 


On Wednesday, June Ist, a meeting 
of the directors of the Saskatchewan 
Purchasing Co. Ltd., was held in Spears 
Hall at Broadview. There were present 
all the local directors, Messrs. David 
Railton, T. J. Graham and E. Klunk 
of Sintaluta, Mr. Switzer of Grenfell, 
D. W. Taylor of Whitewood, F. Dash 
of Hillsden, F. Cunningham of Bender 
and H. O. Partridge of Sintaluta. Mr. 
Collins, president, occupied the chair in 
a very experienced and acceptable manner, 
interjecting comments between the vari- 
ous speeches that very timely and en- 
lightening and adding very much to the 
thorough good feeling that prevailed 
during the whole meeting. The utmost 
cordiality prevailed and the entire dis- 
cussion was carried on in a most dignified 
and interesting manner. The whole 
method of conducting co-operative socie- 
ties was explained by the various speakers 
and much information was gained from 
Mr. Stewart, lately from Scotland, who 
has had an extended experience in them 
in the Old Country. 

Mr. Klunk read a very interesting 

aper on the workings of the companies 
in France, pointing out the increased 
prosperity that was felt after the introduc- 
tion of co-operation. The various speakers 
studiously avoided expressing any ill 
feeling towards parties doing business 
along the old lines but rather exerted their 
talents towards devising newer and more 
modern methods of reaching the pub- 
lic in a trade relation. The advantages 
of co-operation were pointed out without 
any invidious comparisons and_alto- 
gether the speakers took a very high plane. 
Prominent among the speakers were 
Messrs. H. O. Partridge, David Railton, 
W. J. Crowe, Dr. Allingham, John Me- 
Neil and Harry Hinchey. 

H. O. Partridge spoke of the necessity 
of co-operation and approved of the move- 
ment. He cited the fact that the large 
mail order houses had educated the man- 
ufacturers to sell out of the ordinary 
ehannels (through travellers and whole- 
sale houses) and were willing to sell to 
any 6a who had the money and placed 


Page 21 


a large enough erder. David Railton 
was convinced there was no graft and that 
the proposition was clean and just what 
the westerner had needed for many years 
and further he was willing to throw in 
his force to assist the movement to com- 
pletion. W. J. Crowe showed the nec- 
essity of co-operation and gave examples 
of several lines on which the saving ranged 
from 15 per cent. to 200 per cent. 

Some samples of harness were examined 
and the values were more than satis- 
factory. 

The following day a meeting of the 
directors took place and_ resolutions 
of a very practical nature were adopted. 
It was unanimously agreed that Messrs. 
E. A. Partridge and D. Railton be ap- 
pointed a committee to go to Winnipeg 
on a mission for the company. Another 
committee was appointed to investigate 
the proposed plans of the company 
and suggest improvements. This was 
made up as follows: Messrs E. A. Part- 
ridge, David Railton, Dr. Allingham, 
W. J. Crowe and V. Tanner. At this 
meeting the names of the following 
gentlemen were added to the directorate: 
T. H. Smith, Kenlis; Steven Garret, Ken- 
lis ; E. Klunk of Sintaluta, and A. Nys- 
trum, Percival. 

Stevens. Sask. cintd’ 

p Every director left with the deter- 
mination to make this mavement a suc- 
cess. More wil] be heard from the com- 
pany of public interest in a very short 
time unless all signs fail. 


Broadview, Sask. V. TANNER, Sec. 


mS me 
WANT TO ORGANIZE. 


I am writing you with the hopes of 
getting you to send us a man to organize 
a branch of the Grain Growers’ Association 
at this paint. There is no reason why 
we should not help to carry on the work. 
I belong to a sub-association about 
twenty-five miles away. I was bound 
my dollar would go to assist. I induced 
one of my neighbors to do the same. 
so I think we could carry on an Associa- 
tion at this point, if it were properly 
organized, and the right parties at the 
head. We were partly organized once, 
but the thing fell through. In fact, 
there was no meetings called after we 
were organized. That is why I should 
like to have a good man sent that would 
waken them up a little, if possible. Send 
some time during this month. That 
would be the better time. 

JAS. McDOUGALL. 
Burnesville, Sask. 
Qo ae of 

ve VISITING ASSOCIATIONS 
F'A. G. Hawkes, of the Executive of the 
Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Associa- 
tion, is attending a rally of the Esterhazy 
branch on the 16th, and of the Springside 
branch on the 17th. He is also prepared 
to take up any other work in that district, 
and any Associations that would like 
Mr. Hawkes’ assistance should at once 
notify the central office at Moose Jaw. 

eo fe fe 
REPLY RE TERMINAL ELEVATORS 

I am directed by the Right Honorable 
the Minister of Trade and Commerce to 
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 
May 25th, with enclosure; and to say 
in reply that the matter is engaging the 
best consideration of the Government 

F. C. T. O'HARA, 
Ottawa, June 1 Deputy Minister. 
ee 
ffi BRIDGEFORD ENTHUSIASTIC 

An enthusiastic meeting of the local 
branch of the Grain Growers’ Association 
was held in the school house on Monday, 
May 30. A secretary, A. H. Bryan, was 
appointed in the place of J. J. Eddleston, 
who has left the district. The following 
resolutions were unanimously passed: 
“That we strongly endorse a system of 
Government owned elevators fully equip- 
ped to handle the entire grain business 
of this province, but that the loading 
platform be retained.” “That we are in 
favor of an independent commission of 
three to control Government owned 
elevators, one to retire every three years.”’ 
A. Bryan was appointed delegate to the 
Elevator Commission when it sits at 
Tugaske. The meeting discussed the 
proposed joint Grain Growers’ picnic to 
be held at Grand View this summer, and 
J. Smith was appointed delegate to arrange 
our share of same. This branch will 
meet the first Monday in every month 
during the summer, 

A. H. BRYAN, See. 
Bridgeford, Sask. 


Page 22 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Grain Growers Grain Co. 
and Co-operation 


By &. A. Partridge 


Some little time ago a correspondent 
in commenting on the proposal to divide 
the profits of the company co-operatively 
after making an allowance for a fair 
interest on capital invested, expressed 
surprise that a director (myself) should 
have the impudence (this is the meaning 
though not the exact language) to make 
such a suggestion in the face of the fact 
that there were so many persons who held 
stock who did not ship grain to the com- 


ny. 

I would like to point out to the cor- 
respondent, who is evidently a new comer 
and unfamiliar with the origin and early 
history of the company, that it was or- 
ganized by Grain Growers for the benefit 
of Grain Growers and on the distinct 
understanding that the profits were to 
be divided co-operatively, if there should 
be any, which seemed doubtful. In 
fact it was this feature which was named 
by the Grain Exchange as the reason 
for the expulsion of the company. Four 
shares only can be held by an individual, 
indicating that the object was not to 
provide an opportunity for profitable 
investment but to create a satisfactory 
avenue for the marketing of grain. 
Incidentally the company had paid 
good dividends, but the experience in 
trade, the rooting out of improper prac- 
tices, the loosening of the grip of the com- 
bine, the carrying on of an educational 
campaign, the establishment of an in- 
dependent organ for the publication of 
facts that the hireling press habitually 


——e 


suppressed and the impetus and the sup- 
port given by the organization of farmers 
for the discussion and solution of their 
problems, were the things worth while. 
And by the way. who caused the success 
of the company financially: the men who 
subscribed money for stock or the men 
who contributed the grain? The money 
could be secured from the banks at a cost 
of six per cent.; it was the handling of 
grain that yielded a dividend. Many a 
man resisted the bribe of half a cent 
in order to send his grain to ensure the 
success of his company in the battle 
against rotten conditions. It was these 
men who earned the dividends. What 
more proper than that, after providing 
a fair interest on paid up capital, and 
the remainder should go to those whose 
patronage made such dividends possible. 
Few men will lose any sleep over whether 
the dividends are all paid on stock or 
partly on stock and partly on dividends. 
But the latter is the more desirable way 
from the view point of Equity, and makes 
for a community spirit instead of a com- 
mese! spirit which is the bane of modern 
ife, 

It is to be hoped that the friends of 
co-operation and the genuine Grain 
Growers will turn out to the annual 
meeting in such numbers as to secure the 
adoption of the true co-operative method, 
which, only for the barrier of the Com- 
mission Rule of the Grain Exchange, 
would have been the one employed from 
the first. 


This department of the Guide is open to all 
readers, and it is hoped that they will take 
advantage of it. All questions relating to the 
problems of the farmer of Western Canada 
will be answered in this department. Write 
questions on one side of the paper only, and 
send only ene question on one sheet of paper 
Join in making this department of the 
greatest value. 


MUST HAVE NAMES 


Questions sent iniwithout the name of the 
sender attached will not be answered. The 
name will not be used if not desired, but it 
must be sent as a guarantee of good faith. 


RE WHEAT GRADES 


Subscriber, Rosser, Man.—In_ your 
issue of June 1 is an article on “ Western 
Grain Inspection.” I notice in the re- 
quirements of the various grades, as given 
in the Inspection Acts, the No. 1 hard 
must have at least 75 per cent. of Red 
Fife wheat, No. 1 Northern, 60 per cent. 
and No. 2 northern, 45 per cent. I would 
like some information as to why Red Fife 
wheat is mentioned in these grades. 
Two of my neighbors grow White Fife 
wheat and another Blue Stem. They have 
during the past two years, received grades 
of both No. 1 hard and No. 1 northern 
on shipments of White Fife and Blue 
Stem. Kindly explain through Tue 
GuipEe why the Inspection Act contains 
the words ‘Red Fife.” 

Ans.—The Inspection Act contains the 
words‘ Red Fife” because exhaustive tests 
have proven that Red Fife wheat is the 
best milling wheat that can be produced 
in Canada. The grade that your neigh- 
bor got on the White Fife was probably 
No. 1 hard White Fife, a grade which 
appears in the Act but which we did not 
deal with in the article referred to on 
account of the limited number of growers 
of White Fife in’ the Canadian West. 
However, in the Rosser district, he might 
have grown wheat from White Fife seed 
that would attain a grade of straight num- 
ber 1 hard and fulfil every requirement of 
the grade. It is not generally known but 
is nevertheless true that on a heavy clay 
soil such as the Red River Valley and in 
the Rosser district, the product grown 
from White Fife seed will sometimes 
in a single season lose its whiteness and 
become Red Fife in appearance and 
milling quality. Transferred back to 
a sandy soil the seed obtained from 
a harvest will grow a crop of White 

ife. 


Question Drawer 


It is not possible that any car of the 
Blue Stem would be graded No. 1 hard. 
Most growers of this strain are well satis- 
fied with a grade of No. 8 northern, 
but an exceptionally fine crop might 
obtain a grade of No. 1 northern. In- 
spectors cannot always follow the letter 
of the Act and do justice to the shipper. 
A car of Blue Stem that equalled in milling 
value straight No. 1 northern wheat 
would be given that. grade regardless 
of the fact that it did not contain the 
required percentage of Red Fife. How- 
ever, it would never be given a grade of 
No. 1 hard. 


Me te aM 
we ye me 


Re Sixty Day Oats 


Editor Guipn:—In a recent issue of 
Tuer Guin, Mr. Fream asks for informa- 
tion regarding ‘Sixty Day” oats. I 
have had this variety in crop for three 
years, and take the liberty of giving results 
found with them. They are a very early 
oat and a good yielder as well. In 1908 
sown about May 10th, harvested July 
25th or 26th. In 1909 sown about the 
same time and harvested July, and ripe 
August the 3rd, I think. I put the gang 
plow at work and stooked the sheaves 
on plowing, and as a result the land is 
in fully as good shape as summer fallow 
would have been. This shows the pos- 
sibilities for cleaning dirty land with such 
an early oat, and have a good crop as well. 
I have a good strain of American Banner 
oats, and as everybody knows the Banner, 
I will use them for comparison. Last 
year my Banner yielded 65 bushels per 
acre. The “Sixty Day” oats yielded 
61 bushels and were thirteen days sooner 
ripe. The “Sixty Day” are fully as 
heavy as Banner and a very much thinner 
hulk. The kernel is small, and of a golden 
color rather than white: The ‘Sixty 
Day” oat was imported from Russia 
1901 by U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Have been grown at Brookings Station 
ever since (my seed is of this strain) and 
are grown extensively in Dakota, and con- 
sidered a leader there, especially so in 
drier parts. The above station in testing 
different varieties found oats with as high 
as 30 per cent. hull, while ‘Sixty Day” 
oats had as low as 17 per cent. hull. 
These oats are very hardy and stand dry 
winds, almost better than Banner. This 
spring we have been troubled with soil 
drifting,and I have had to re-sow portions 
of Banner field as they were almostyen- 


tirely dead. The “Sixty Day” oats were 
cut off fully as badly, but will make a 
fair stand without re-sowing. I would 
not recommend the ‘Sixty Day” oat 
for a general crop of oats in our district, 
more because the kernel is so small 
they would not make a good market oat, 
than yield. But it would be well to have 
a portion in this variety. These oats 
are so early one could harvest wild oats 
without much chilling, so you will see 
possibilities of cleaning land by means of 
them. 

I have sold all I could spare for seed, 
in fact could have disposed of twice as 


many. 
HAROLD ORCHARD. 
Lintrathen, Man. 


J. W. SCALLION 


One of those who the Westland made; 
One who ne’er from the right path strayed; 
One of the best of them; 
Farms with the rest of ’em. 
One who fought with the old brigade. 


A lengthy life with troubles few 
Is all the harm we all wish you. 
Tho you've toiled in the fight 
In the cause of the right, 
We want youyet. ‘There’s much to do.” 
THE JUNE TWENTIETH CENTURY 
MAGAZINE 

Among the articles in the June number 
of the Twentieth Century magazine are 
“The Initiative and Referendum in its 
Relation to the Political and Physical 
Health of the Nation,” by Hon. Robert 
L. Owen; ‘‘Colorado and Her Resources, ”’ 
(Illustrated), by Ellis Meredith; ‘The 
New Theatre on Trial,” by William 
Mailly; ‘“‘The New Feudalism,” by Hon. 
Miles Poindexter; ‘‘A High School and 
College of Co-operative Agriculture,” 
by William Thum; “A Modern Parcel 
Post,” by John M. Stahl; ‘Two Concep- 
tions of God,” by Hon. John D. Works; 
“Conservation in Europe,” by M. F. 
Abbott; “The Menace of a National 
Health Bureau,” by B. O. Flower; ‘‘The 
Return from Elba,” by W. B. Fleming; 
“Young India’s Reply to Count Tolstoi,”’ 
Part IL., by Taraknath Das; ‘‘The Oppor- 
tunity of the Religious Press,” by Bayard 
E. Harrison; ‘‘ Representative and Mis- 
representative Government,” by B. O. 
Flower; ‘‘San Francisco’s Side of the 
Hetch-Hetchy Reservoir Matter,” by 
Marsden Manson. In addition to these 
are the regular departments on various 
phases of fundamental and economic 
advance. 

Most men are able to get off smart 
things—thanks to the lack of adhesiveness 
in mustard plasters. 

me te oe r 

Sometimes a’ man accomplishes great 

things by getting others to do them for 


_ him. 


te . 
When a woman throws 4,,brick at an 
old hen it’s usually harder on the scenery 
than it is on the hen. 


June 15th 1910 


Winnipeg Exhibition 
Just six weeks hence the Twentieth 
Annual Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition 
will be in full swing, bigger and better 
than ever. This year the horse racing 
card, which usually has taken up the 
interest of the bigger portion of the crowd 
for every afternoon, has not been length- 
ened to meet the longer period, but 
instead, three afternoons have been set 
apart for entertainment of another kind 
on the exhibition oval. On Wednesday, 
July 18, the opening day of the Fair, 
automobile racing is to be in order, and 
a whole list of automobile features have 
been scheduled for that day, which has 
been named “‘Automobile Day.” There 
is to be a utility contest among stock 
models of various kinds, following some- 
what the lines along which the farmers 
have found the traction-engine test the 
foremost event of its kind in the world; 

an automobile parade, and auto races. 
The Horse Show 

On two other afternoons, Monday, 
July 18, and Wednesday, July 20, the 
track will be devoted to the Horse Show 
feature of the Exhibition. With this 
arrangement a difficulty that has for years 
been a bugbear of the Exhibition is obviate. 
No adequate arrangements for showing 
the horses that make up the foremost 
general interest feature of the Fair has 
ever been secured before, and knowledge 
of this fact has deterred many owners of 
fine horses from showing their stock. 
Winnipeg is famous for the.class of pleas- 
ure and driving horses owned by its 
citizens; remarkable for the class and 
quality of horses seen on its streets in 
the harness of burden, hauling the heavy 
loads of commercialism. Every citizen 
of the city is a horse lover, and yet the 
harness classes of the exhibition have 
heretofore gone almost without knowledge 
because of the time and place that has 
had to be utilized for their showing. All 
this has been done away with under this 
arrangement, and the two afternoons on 
which the heavy harness horses will have 
their innings in front of thegreat grand- 
stands will be the most brilliant days of 
the whole Exhibition. 

A brave showing of draft horses is 
assured from the prizes that have been 
hung up. It is possible fora single stud 
of six Clydesdales to win the sum of $880 
in cash, besides special prizes and trophies. 

The Dog Show will, as heretofore, be 
a great feature of this summer’s Exhi- 
bition. In fact, it will be this year the 
best Bench Show held in Canada. The 
only five point show to be seen in the 
whole west. The Dog Show will be given 
improved quarters this year, which will 
add to the interest in that branch. The 
Dog Show proper only lasts four days, 
starting July 19. 

The racing card will be unusually 
attractive. Its feature will be the start 
of The Broncho, 2.0034, and the finest 
piece of racing machinery owned in 
Canada, to beat her own, the track and 
the world’s record, for a mile over half, 
mile rack. 

The Tractor test, which has become 
such a famous feature that European 
governments will send representatives 
to it this year; the wireless station tower, 
over twice as high as the Union Bank 
Building; the great Patterson Shows, 
and the thousand and one other novelties 
of carnival time will mark ‘‘The Great 
Fair of the Great West.” 


he ge of 
MAD MULLAH DEAD 


A London, England, cable of June 8, 
said: “The Standard says that the 
notorious Mad Mullah, Mohammed Ab- 
dullah, who long troubled Great Britain 
and Italy in Somaliland, was captured in 
a recent fight at Hardega by friendly- 
natives and shot. His.death has left his 


followers without a leader.” 


ote 


eo fe fe 
CREATES NEW FLOWERS 

Luther Burbank announces the per- 
fection of two new flowers—a poppy and 
a white evening primrose. His new 
creations will be extensively reproduced 
he says, at a ranch recently purchased 
at Lompoc, Santa Barbara county. 

“TI have been working on them for 
several years,” Mr. Burbank said. “The 
poppy is a combination of the shirley, 
the tulip poppy, and a species found in 
the mountains of North Africa. 

“Tt is larger and on a brighter hue than 


any of them, and offers;a combination of 


new shades. The primrose is white, and 
five inches in diameter.” 


June 15th, 1910 


Barn 
Roofing 


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Durable and 


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Let us know the size of any 

roof you are thinking of cover- 

ing and we will make you an 
interesting offer 


Metallic Roofing Co. 


LIMITED 
Manufacturers : 


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45A 


Western Canada Factory: 
797 NOTRE DAME AVENUE, WINNIPEG 


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ARTS 


EDUCATION 
THEOLOGY 
MEDICINE 
SCIENCE (including Engineering) 
The Arts Course may be taken without 


attendance, but students desiring to 
graduate must attend one session. There 


were 1517 students registered session 


1909—10. 


For Calendars write the Registrar, 
GEO. Y. CHOWN, B.A., 
Kingston, Ontario 


Why Remain 
Bald 


are Guaranteed as to Fit, Workman- 
ship, Hair, and Naturalness of Appear- 
ance. We can make them up from 
Head Measures sent us by Mail, or 
from a Mould of the Head taken by 
our New Process at our Store. 


PRICES RANGE FROM 


$25 To $40 
Saalfeld & McLean 


344 Garry Street - - WINNIPEG, Man. 


JACKS FOR SALE 


I ‘have the largest Jacks in the world, in both 
imported and home-bred. have sold over seven 
hundred Jacks from my farm here, and they have 
sired and are siring the best: mules in the United 
States. ‘My prices are lower than any other .man 
on earth for good, first-class Jacks. t me show 
you before you buy. 


W. L. DE CLOW Gir iapibs iowa. 


Watch. Us Grow 


GRAIN GROWERS! | 
Does ‘your -Watch. Hacer ze § or 1 : 


Repuits? “If 80° 1h 


J. K. CALLAGHAN 


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= a oof 


of Europe. 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Canada’s Grand Old Man 


Continued from Page 18 


almost in the heart of the city, ‘The 
Grange” lay. far enough from trolley 
bell and peddler’s shriek to be a calm 
retreat for the man of letters who made 
it his home for so long. ‘‘The old house, 
with its park-like lawn, its queenly elms, 
its fenced-off paddock, is a bit of old 
England in Canada,’ wrote Mr. Frank 
Yeigh in 1899. ‘One leaves the rush 
of the world behind as the picturesque 
lodge is passed, and the gravelled walk 
is followed under the spreading trees 
that lead to the ivy-covered residence. 
Its age stands confessed in the figures 
‘1817,’ carved over the portal, making it 
one of the oldest and best preserved 
early country houses in thai. city of homes. 

“Entering the hall as the main door 
is thrown open, the main hall emphasizes 
the resemblance of the place to.the coun- 
try house of the better class still to be seen 
in rural England. The atmosphere. of 
age is as marked as the memories of time 
that hover around the white pillars, 
the quaint, square staircase, the carved 
oaken chest and the mahogany cabinets 
filled with rare china and early Canadian 
relics. All the decorations—the bric-a- 
brac, the mirrors, the busts, the pictures 
and curtains and stained glass windows 
effectively harmonize.” 


Artistic Taste 

The dining-room is distinguished for 
its portraits which look down on a mahog- 
any table polished to the brightness of a 
mirror. The celebrities on the walls 
include Cromwell, Hampden, Pym, Mil- 
ton, Bunyan, Lord Fairfax, Andrew Mar- 
vell, Richard Baxter, Admiral Blake 
and Sir Henry Vane, showing the immense 
interest which the owner maintained in 
the early struggles for constitutional 
government. The library, the workshop 
of “The Grange,”’ contains the standard 
works on history, theology, literature, 
classics and social reform, besides many 
reviews and magazines. The collection 
has been formed since 1868, when Mr. 
Smith presented his library of that date 
to Cornell University. The literary tastes 
of the master of “The Grange’ were 
wide, but, like other people, he had his 
favorities. Balzac, Thackeray, Scott, 
Jane Austen, George Elliot and Dickens 
were highly esteemed. Long years of 
thorough reading, combined with a re- 
markable. memory, made composition 
a work of unusual facility, and once Mr. 
Smith undertook a work he carried it out 
rapidly and made few corrections. He 
was methodical, and until a few years ago 
always rose early enough to perform two 
or three hours’ work before joining the 
family at breakfast. He ceased at two 
in the afternoon, and never allowed work 
to encroach on his evenings. 


He ped the Farmers 


Goldwin Smith’s activities led him 
into all paths where he thought that his 
ideas might be of help. In the late nine- 
ties when no longer a young man, he per- 
ceived the necessity of a strong hand 
in the guidance of Canadian farmers. 
There had been a long period of industrial 
depression, and the whole country, 
especially the farmers, was suffering from 
a lack of finances. Agriculture was in 
but little better shape, politically, than 
in some of the least progressive countries 
Farmers. were without or- 
ganization and former attempts at or- 


-ganization had met with failure. 


A leader was needed and Goldwin 


‘Smith, as always, was ready to take hold 


and help. The first step in bringing the 
farmers together was the formation in 
1896 of a company which re-established 
The Toronto Sun, devoted chiefly to the 
interests of the farmers, and free from 
political control. At this time The Sun 
was in great danger of collapse but the 
new company soon put it on a paying 
basis and rendered invaluable aid to 
the cause of agriculture. For many years 
Mr. Smith was a regular weekly con- 
tributor of articles to The Sun under the 
name of ‘Bystander.’”’ Later on he. 
took an active part in. building up in 
Ontario a new organization, the Farmers’ 
Association, and took an. active:interest 
in the affairs.of the Association afterwards. - 
He was present. at the amalgamation 
of. the Association and the Grange and. 


later when this organization joined hands: - 


with our. strong Western Associations, 
although too feeble to attend, he took:a 


“great interest in: the proceedings,. In 


a recent issue of Tus Guyer, W. L. Smith, 


editor. of the Toronto’ Sun, paid Mr... 


Smith this tribute: mr 


ae ea 


“The services: of Goldwin Smith to. 
agriculture become all. the. more remark- 
able when one remembers his previous 
career, and the great eminence of the 
position he had attained. His services 
to agriculture were rendered atva time 
of life when he.could not have had any 
personal end to serve—when the best 
that public activities had to offer had noth- 
ing in the way of personal reward. The 
service was wholly unselfish—wholly 
sincere. It was the crowning act in a 
career of rare distinction—a career be- 
ginning with an honorable course at 
Oxford as a student, a still more honorable 
position as a professor of history and 
personal tutor to King Edward, then 
Prince of Wales, at the same institution, 
and later on as one of the chief founders 
of Cornell, which now ranks as one of the 
greatest universities of the United States. 

“Tn public affairs he had attained emi- 
nence equal to that secured in the halls 
of learning. In England he was the asso- 
ciate of Gladstone, of Bright, of Cobden, 
and of other leaders in the best days of 
English Liberalism, and his first appear- 
ance on this continent was when he came 
as a confidential representative of British 
Liberals to assist in allaying the spirit 
of war which threatened to arise between 
the Mother Country and the Republic 
as an outcome of causes having their origin 
in the Civil war then raging in the United 
States. 

“One of the chief causes of pride for 
those connected with agriculture is that 
the interest with which they are connected 
has been able to enlist in its: support 
one of the greatest intellects of the age— 
the services of a man whose mane is 
known in America and England, indeed 


wherever the English language is spoken, : 


as well as it is known in Canada. It is 


a satisfaction to know, too, that one of | 
the greatest joys which have come to the. 


“Sage of the Grange’’ in his later days 
is the knowledge that his services have 
borne fruit in assisting to give the farm 
its rightful share in shaping the course 
of public affairs to the end that labor 
may enjoy in peace the bread. which it 
earns.” 

It was his desire for the betterment 
of the’ farmer and the tiller that led 
Mr. Smith, some twenty-five years ago, 
to plunge whole-souled into. that move- 
ment that had for its object the striking 
down of the trade barriers between 
Canada and the United States and the 
ultimate amalgamation of the two nations. 


His Part in Politics 


He always took a great interest in 
politics. Shortly after coming to Toronto 
he was seized with a great admiration for 
Sir John Macdonald, and in 1878 he lent 
the power of his voice and pen in support 
of the advocate of the National policy. 
In 1881 he wrote in the contemporary 
Review that the policy of protection was 
absolutely necessary in the interest of 
Canada. Still, ten years later, he severely 
denounced Sir John Macdonald and in- 
sisted that the protective tariff in Canada 
was disloyal and hostile to England. 


He was a persistent opponent of the 
policy of home rule for Ireland, denying 
both the capacity of Irishmen for self- 
government and the possibility of ob- 
taining their desires. To his latest days 
he regarded the disproportionate influence 
of the Irish party in the British house, 
swinging first to one side, then to the other, 
as one of the strongest evidences of the 
weakness of the party system. He fre- 
quently attacked the morals and cliques 
of aristocratic politicians in England, 
but at the same time was a lover of good 
society and went to Washington to gratify 
his taste. In early years he signed John 


_ Stuart Mill’s first petition in favor of the 


suffrage of unmarried women, but: years 
afterwards, in an essay, marshalled all 
the known arguments against woman 
suffrage in the keenest and most incisive 
form. 

In 1890 he declared that ‘if Russia 
could find a single ally among the powers 
of Europe, the case of the Empress of 
India. would be desperate.” The ally 
was found but the result was never ac- 
hieved, and Russia found a. powerful 
antagonist in a Far Eastern nation-which 
she had despised. ee 

But: Goldwin Smith’s books: were his 


_ great legacy to the.world and itis‘by:them 
_that he will be remembered. youd : 
His ‘greatest literary monument, is 


the publication of 1899: “Thé United 

Kingdom: A Political History:” This 

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of historic statement: of the progress of 
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MANITOBA REPORT ISSUED 


A report on crops and live stock in the province of Manitoba has just been issued 
by the provincial department of agriculture and immigration. The report is dated 
June 8 and contains full information to date with regard to crops and live stock in the 
various sections of the province, together with several interesting comparisons with 
former years. An account is also given of the condition of the dairy industry. The 
report says: 

The information contained in this bulletin regarding crops, live stock, etc., in Mani- 
toba is summarized from the returns received from seven hundred regular correspond- 
ents of the department to be found in every organized district in the province, under 
date of June Ist, although reports have been compiled up to June 6th. Comparisons 
showing increase or decrease in acreage of crop are made with bulletin 80 issued Dec. 


14th, 1909. 
Divided Into Districts 


The province is divided into districts as follows: 

The Northwestern district comprises the municipalities of Archie, Miniota, Ham- 
iota, Blanshard, Saskatchewan, Odanah, Ellice, Birtle, Shoal Lake, Strathclair, Harrison, 
Minto, Clanwilliam, Russell, Silver Creek, Rossburn, Shellmouth, Shell River, Boulton, 
Grandview, Gilbert Plains, Dauphin, Ethelbert, Mossy River, Swan River and 
Minitonas. 

The Southwestern district comprises the municipalities of Arthur, Edward, Brenda, 
Winchester, Morton, Turtle Mountain, Albert, Cameron, Whitewater, Riverside, 
Pipestone, Sifton, Glenwood, Oakland, Wallace, Woodworth, Whitehead, Daly, Corn- 
wallis and Elton. 

The North Central district comprises the municipalities of North Cypress, North 
Norfolk, Portage la Prairie, St. Francis Xavier, Langford, Woodlands, Rosedale, 
Lansdowne, Westbourne, St. Laurent, McCreary, Ochre River, Ste. Rose. 

_ The South Central district comprises the municipalities of Roblin, Louise, Pem- 
bina, Stanley, Rhineland, Montcalm, Strathcona, Argyle, Lorne, Thompson, Roland, 
me South Cypress, Victoria, South Norfolk, Grey, Dufferin, Macdonald (west 

alf). 

The Eastern district comprises the municipalities of Franklin, Stuartburn, Sprague, 
De Salaberry, Hanover, La Broquerie, Macdonald (east half), Ritchot, Tache, St. 
Anne, Assiniboia, St. Vital, Kildonan, Springfield, Whitemouth, Rosser, St. Pauls, 
Rockwood, Brokenhead, St. Andrews, St. Clements, Gilmi, Bifrost. 


Area Under Crop—Acres 


District— Wheat Oats Barley Flax 
Northwestern 877,205 458,462 97,776 2,616 
Southwestern ..................0. 1,180,841 378,987 128,721 4,061 
North Central .....2.............. 484,055 212,708 121,380 10,823 
South Centra}: hy 25... te 913,607 344,327 226,570 14,751 
Hastert eee oe eee 262,384 175,185 83,073 8,751 

PEOWInte ee eo, behets ae 8,118,092 1,564,669 657,520 41,002 
Totalarea UHdeR Ty 6) gece. 5 icky ha gee cance sade cele wth sau niduid ca aleesnile ihe a we 6,361 
Total area tinder pene 205.5 facie oo lace ad woe Hb aid and doa a bateow ea ueeiers Seow hake oe 2,247 
Total area under fodder corm 2.0.0.0... ccc cc cee eee neh eee de bb neu eee be 7,493 
Total area under brome grass:................0....0% .. 21,548 
Total area underrye grass 2.0... 0... ce cece eee te ee eseeaess 15,146 
Total area under alfalfa or clover 3,220 
Total dren Under timothy 33.6 PR Po io wav ponte oreo beh + wieydn Ree ans baie» 106,236 
Increased area under wheat .......0.. 000: cece ee cen teen tebe e tenes 475,981 
Ungregsed ates under Oa be «cic juicy cscs oa opus co conse obemiele eine dag wet bane ot 190,986 
Inereased ates ‘under barley 1.03.05. 55 0 ids ce ge siemens Sane pep sees aneeeh 56,512 
Increased area under flax”... @0°),. Fa. Se cn eee ce cna cneuee as 20,367 
Total incréas@in iaiticrops. 8. 006s ob a eae ee a eee eats os 750,770 
Total increabéin crop area” 1. Ps cease ene sea pieces ccneceselvase 818,851 


In this increase in area under crop it is very gratifying to note that some 3,220 
acres have been sown to clover or alfalfa as a preventative of noxious weeds, and for 
increasing soil fertility these fodder plants are unexcelled. In the rotation of crops 
this fodder should be much more universally sown. 


Potatoes and Roots 


District— Potatoes—Acres Roots—Acreg 
Northwestern ....... 8,122 2,375 
Southwestern: oe ee Oe, 5,930 1,885 
North Central fhe FDEUS pa bik ee eS eS 1,275 1,885 
South Central. oj5 cece eee es as ciara gins a whore ee ee ae oe Oe aOeD. 2,723 
Bastém st ot dae Pe SOME. a ca bet em a holas Wet 11,879 2,914 

PRO VAN CG ois otek seek akoode gp Frinw, amc qeotn dod ace ols a 4 atte leek pont 40,745 11,782 
Total area under grain crop ........0..- 0.00. e eect nee 5,397,384 Acres. 
Total area under all crops 0.0.0.0... 0.0 c cece ee eee 5,596,061 Acres 

Live Stock 
Cattle Fattened 
During Winter Milch 
1909-10 Cows 
District— 
Northwestetn:.0.7. eee Pe 7,131 29,643 
Southwéstern® mich oo bas cores e ai 8989 22,646 
North Central ......". 6,174 83,503 
Sauth: Centralios, ods cut cee ete 6,295 25,312 
Blaster Fee ee a ee OY Slee atlas 5,332 38,737 

Province 2) ee POPPE eS OL. ae boa 83,191 146,841 

Distriet— Horsés Cattle Pigs Sheep 
Northwestern ... .. 45,040 86,607 $2,418 5,625 
Southwestern. 6000 22.055. aa OAS .. 64,740 80,490 36,720 4,451 
North Contrali:3) 560 ui. eee . 84,193 80,501 $2,066 4,235 
South Central ... 58,287 75,270 46,670 11,662° 
Eastern .... 80,465 74,393 28,338 6,250 

Province...... #832, 785 397,861 176,212 82,293 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


i ae ANNES * This Section of The Guide is conducted officially for the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association 
: by R. McKenzie, Secretary, Winnipeg, Man. 


DURBAN MEETING 
The regular monthly meeting of the 
Durban branch of the Manitoba Grain 
Growers’ Association held on May 19 
was well attended. A representative of 
the provincial telephone system, at the 
request of the meeting, explained the 
system and cost of establishing a line 
of telephone in this district. Some time 
was given to discussing the advisability 
of purchasing a carload of twine but noth- 
ing definite was done. A motion was 
passed unanimously instructing the 
secretary to write the elevator commission 
for petition forms for the taking over of 
the elevator at this point. 
GEO. BRADEN, Sec. 
Durban, Man. : 


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June 15th, 1910 


MANITOBA GRAIN 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 


Honorary Presipanr: 
J. W. SCALLION - - Vinpsn 


PresipEent: 
D. W. McCUAIG, Portage a Prarnin 


Vics-PREsiIDENT: 


R.C.HENDERS - - 
Sxcrerary-TRBASUREL: 


Cunross 


R. McKENZIE - - .- 


Directors: 

Peter Wright, Myrtle; R. M. 
Wilson, Marringhurst; F. W. Kerr, 
Souris; G. H. Malcolm, Birtle; J. S. 
Woods, Oakville; R. J. Avison, 
Gilbert Plains. 


Winnipeg 


for an interview with the premier, Sir 
Wilfrid Laurier, on his visit West, to dis- 
cuss the following: “1. A change in the 
tariff towards the total abolition of the 
duty on agricultural implements. : 

“2. The urgent necessity of the im- 
mediate building of the Hudson Bay 
Railroad by the Dominion government. 

“3. The acquisition by the Dominion 
government of the terminal elevators 
at an early date and that this resolution 
be published in Toe Grain Growers’ 


GuIpE.” JOHN R. DUTTON, Sec. 
Gilbert Plains, Man. 


Farm Hands 


Farm Hands Female Servants 

Employed Required Employed Req’red 

Northwestern . 4,178 5,020 1,920 762 
Southwestern ................. 6,362 10,685 1,433 1,475 
North Central .... cane 3,479 7,296 941 891 
South Central ...................... 6,050 9,697 1,792 1,411 
Eastern ... 3,198 3,190 729 351 
PrOSNOHY Ec Geis cea cose euens 23,262 35,888 6,815 4,890 


Seeding Time and Crop Prospects 

In some parts of the province seeding commenced as early as the 20th of March; 
the majority, however commenced about the first week in April. Reports state that 
it was a perfect time for seeding as frost was out of the ground and weather cool and 
pleasant for working. 

Seeding was general between the 8th and 12th of April. 

Some correspondents report seeding finished from the 10th to the 15th of May: 
the majority, however, report it finished about May 20, with the exception of barley, 
flax, peas, rye and corn, which reports state was finished the first week in June. 

At this date wheat is generally covering the ground, with an abundance of root 
and a good strong, healthy appearance; with the showers which fell all over the province 
within the last ten days there is sufficient moisture to ensure healthy growth. 

The report of the correspondents on crop prospects at the first of June is repeated 
many times in the brief expression, ‘‘never better.” . 

The following tables for the convenience of reference give a comparison of the area 
in crop for 1910 with that of 1909 and 1908. 


1908 1909 1910 

Wheat 2.00. eee eee es., 2,850,640 2,642,111 3,118,092 
Oats bs scbesrand 4,8 Oh denstgacay a Aur eta 302 . 1,216,632 1,373,688 1,564,669 
Batley: ac... eects 23,02 SG Wags oe Shoe ns AO 658,441 601,008 657,520 
Flax 50,187 20,635 41,002 
Potatoes: oot ie Si AE i era alde Sn ot 29,963 28,265 40,745 
Roots 2h hae Shae Aes Be BL Se hes ahah 13,592 9,876 11,782 

Total crop area .. 1... cet eee te eens 4,987,498 4,777,210 5,596,061 


In 1908 the spring opened up quite early and the acreage, which was sown to all 
crops, showed a material increase over that of 1907. 

In 1909 owing to the late season and scarcity of good seed barley the farmers were 
short on wheat and barley as well as potatoes and roots. 

This year’s figures show that the area pendulum has swung back to wheat on ac- 
count of the early and favorable seeding time and the large area prepared for wheat; 
that with the natural expansion which is going on in the province has brought the crop 
area up to over five millions and a half of acres, without neglecting oats, barley and flax. 

Table showing area in crop in 1910 compared with that of 1900: 


1900 1910 

Wheat . 1,457,396 3,118,092 
Oats 529,108 1,564,669 
Barley ... 155,111 657,520 
7a an SO aS me ee ee ae 20,587 41,002 
Potatoes .. Vcee va aes 16,880 40,745 
Roots ode ci esis. 7,482 11,728 

Se ese eige be eR CN an ek Viel ea Ad gare eon G, ¥ 2,122,500 5,596,061 


Total crop area 
Dairying 

On the whole, stock came through the winter quite up to the average, but the dry, 
cold weather during the spring months considerate retarded the grass in its growth, 
thus necessitating possibly two weeks extra stabling and feeding. This, coupled with 
the fact that a large number of the cows are late in freshening, accounts in part at least 
for the scarcity of and the high prices paid for milk and milk products during the spring 
months. The average price of creamery butter during the months of April and Mas 
was far in excess of what it was for the corresponding months of last year. ‘At this 
time, the early part of June, the prices of cheese and butter are practically the same as 
they were a year ago. The recent rains and generally favorable weather conditions 
of late have produced excellent pasturage, and the prospects for the balance of the season 
are quite promising. ‘ : 

It is to be deplored, however, that the high prices offered by drovers, who ane 
searching the country for beef cattle and making tempting offers, are inducing 
many farmers to adopt the penny wise and pound foolish policy of selling cows thet are 


late in fréshening. 


June 16th, 1910 


BIRD’S HILL MATCH 


Twenty plowmen entered the tenth 
annual Bird’s Hill plowing match June 9, 
The match was held on the farm of T. 
Patterson, of Springfield, and was one 
of the most successful ever held in the 
district. Considering the condition of 
the land, the plowing was all good, and a 
number of the leaders in the various classes 
showed championship style, and demon- 
strated that they would make worthy 
opponents for provincial honors. 


The Eaton Cup 


The T. Eaton cup, open to boys under 
21 years, and boys under 16, the former 
conceding 10 points to the latter, was won 
by B. George, with a score of 81 points. 
His work was of high order and he was 
just one point behind H. Bushell, of the 
men’s champion class, who secured the 
sweepstakes and the farmers’ institute 
cup. Mr. Bushell is a plowman who has 
worked up from the ranks of the boys, 
and has already: taken a high standing 
in the Bird’s Hill match. It is quite 
possible that he will journey to Carroll 
on June 15, to compete for provincial 
honors, and it is quite probable that the 
MeMillan cup, emblematic of the highest 
provincial honors, and at present held by: 
James Sutherland, will return to its home. 

When the provincial matches were dis- 
continued at the experimental farm of 
Brandon, in 1903, the McMillan cup was 
given to Bird’s Hill, and was to consti- 
tute the provincial trophy. In 1906, 
Turner, of Carroll fame, and the hero of 
many hard fought struggles, accompanied 
by Rodgers, plowing artist from Portage, 
journeyed to the Bird’s Hill annual in 
quest of the coveted silverware. Turner 
was successful and carried the mug to 
Carroll, only to have the honors wrested 
from him in-1909, by James Sutherland, 
who will make a strong bid to retain the 
honors this year. 


Boys Did Well 


Too much credit cannot be given to the 
boys who turned out at the match. 
Their work compared favorably with that 
of the men, and R. Waugh, whose score 
was 70 points, will chase hard for sweep- 
stakes honors next year, 

In class 3, for men who had not won 
first honors at any previous matches, 
T. Lungair took first honors, and graduates 
into championship next year. 

In the gang and sulky plow class there 
was but a single entry in each, but the 
work done was of a high standard. 
G. Linklater, in the sulky plow class, 
received 78 points, and looked like a 
swerpetakes man the greater part of the 

ay. . 

Among the previous year’s champions 
who did not compete this year were 
W. Knipe, who was this year elected 
president, and J. A. Henderson, who 
officiated last year as a judge at Portage, 
and who will again act this year. ‘lhe 
Bird’s Hill judges this year were S. A. 
Bedford, professor of the Manitoba 
Agricultural college, and J. A. Cuthbert, a 
champion from Portage. Their decisions 
were most satisfactory. 


Summary of Events 


Class 1, boys 16 years and under—. 
R. Waugh, 1, 70 points; R. George, 2, 
66}4 points; J. McBeath, 3, 66 points; 
E. S. Isbester, 4, 62 points. 

Class 2, boys 2U years and under.— 
B. George, 1, 81 points; Fraser Henderson, 
2, 78 points; P. Hoddinott, 3, 7544 
points; W. J. Harrison, 4, 7414 points; 
FF. Banister, 5, 65 points. 

Class 3, men 21 years and over.— 
T. Lungair, 1, 71 points; J. Mickle, 2, 
7144 points; W. Davis, 38, 71 points; 
J. Ward, 4, 69 points; J. Willaims, 5, 
65 points, 

Class 4, sulky plows.—G. Linklater, 
78 points. 

Class 5, gang plows.—A. E. Studdon, 
75 points. 

Class 6, championship, open to all 
comers.—H. Bushell, 1, 82 points; E. 
Garvin, 2, 75 points; J. E. Franks, 3, 
7314 points; W. J. Smith, 4, 60 points. 

Sweepstakes cup.—H. Bushnell, 82 
points. 


T. Eaton cup and watch, won by B. 
George, with a-total of 81 points. 

The day was ideal and a goodly number 
of city people as well as people from the 
surrounding country were preseat to 
witness the young sons of the farm win 
honors behind the handle bars. Large 
tents had been erected, and refreshments 
were generously served by the ladies. 
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PICNIC AT ARNAUD 


The Grain Growers’ picnic at Arnaud 
on the 10th inst., was attended practically 
by every Grain Grower and his family 
within ten miles of the village. The 
feature of the gathering that appealed 
most strongly to a visitor, was the large 
number of young people and _ children 
that were present, and the hearty manner 
in which they all entered into the sports 
provided, the absolute abandonment to 
a day’s enjoyment. The weather was all 
that could be desired. The only drawback 
seemed to be that there was no shady 
place that anyone could retire to from the 
burning sun. 

Mr. Horace Chevrier and Dr. Mc- 
Fadden, prospective candidates in the 
coming provincial election, and the 
secretary of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ 
Association, were present, by invitation 
to deliver addresses. So intent were the 
picnicers in watching the sports that no 
opportunity was given for addresses 
until near seven o’clock, and even at 
that time the attention of the hearers and 
of ‘thé. speakers were distracted by the 
shouts ‘of the baseball fan cheering their 
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tunity for a day’s outing for farmers, 
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In addition to providing for the social 
side, opportunity should be taken for 
devoting some time of. the day for educa- 
tional work. The Grain Growers’ Asso- 
ciation and the young people on the farm, 
cannot afford to go to seed on sports, 
and at each one of these picnics the pro- 
gram should be arranged so as to provide 
for an interval for addresses. After the 
picnicers stand around watching a game 
for an hour or two, if they were to retire 
to some quiet place to listen to intelligent 
addresses, it would not only be profitable, 
but a pleasant change in the day’s re- 
creation. 

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A meeting of farmers was held at Alma 
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THE GRAIN‘GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Canada’s Grand Old Man. 


Continued from Page 23 


the British Isles from practical savagery 
to the most highly civilized free govern- 
ment in the world, with special reference 
to the growth of the parliamentary 
institutions. Even the grave pages of 
the history are sometimes illuminated by 
touches of ironic humor. 


His Works 


“Lectures and Essays,” published in 
1881, contains nineteen articles, in which 
Mr. Smith dealt in an illuminative manner 
with “The Ascent of Man,” “Proposed 
Substitutes for Religion,” ‘‘ Greatness of 
the Romans,” “Greatness of England,” 
“ Milton,” ‘Lincoln’ and other interest- 
ing subjects. England’s greatness, he 
maintained, was in her energy’ of char- 
acter and. regard for liberty bred by 
favorable conditions. of climate and 
race. 

His other publications include . the 
following: “Three English Statesmen: 
Cromwell, Pitt and Pym,” 1867; “Essays 


-on Reform,” 1867; ‘The re-organization 


of the University of Oxford,” 1868; 
“The Irish Question,” 1868; “The Re- 
lations. Between America and England,” 
1869; “A Short History of England 
Down to the Reformation,” 1869; “ Wil- 
liam , Cowper,”’ 1880; “The Conduct: of 
England to Ireland,” 1882; “False Hopes” 
England to ‘Treland,” 1882; ‘False 
Hopes,” 1883; “A Trip, to England,” 
1892; “Oxford and Her Colleges,” 1894; 
“Bay Leaves: Translations from the Latin 
Poets,” 1894; ‘‘Specimens r 
Tragedy,” 1894; ‘Essays on Questions 
of the Day,” 1894: “ Guesses at the Riddle 
of Existence,’”’ 1896. : 

The value of Goldwin Smith’s contri- 
butions to history and to literature cannot 
be appreciated without a perusal of sume 
of his masterpieces of condensed historical 
narrative. 

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BRITISH TRADE INCREASES 


The total values of the. merchandise 
imported into the United Kingdom, and 
of the merchandise exported. from the 
United Kingdom, during the four*months 
ending April 80th, 1910, were as follows: 
Imports seule ertisce ee « £224,716 ,000 


Exports: é 
United Kingdom produce £136,179,000 
Foreign and Colonial 
produce 88,634,000 
These figures are greatly in excess of 
the totals for the corresponding four 
months of 1909, the increases being: 


In imports... eee ee eee ee £19,602,000 
or 9.5 per cent. 

In Exports: 

Of U. K. produce.......-.. £18,488,000 


or 15.7 per cent. 

Of For. and Col.,produce.... 7,302,000 
or 23.3 per cent. 

The increases both in imports and 
exports, were very «general. Conse- 
quenit on the shortage of the cotton crop 
there was a decrease of about £4,500,000 
in the value of: raw cotton imported. 

The returns. compiled at the present 
date do not show the total value of the 
imports from, or that of the total exports 
to, particular countries during the month 
of April; but figures are available for 
the three months ending March 31st, 
from which it appears that practically 
the whole of the increases of £9,200,000 
in the total value of the imports during 
the first. quarter. of .1910.as compared 
with the first quarter of 1909 occurred 


in imports from countries within the 


empire, the increase under the head of 
foreign countries being less than £100,000. 
As regards exports of United Kingdom 
produce in that. quarter, the relative pro- 
portions of exports to countries within 


‘and to countries without. the empire 


were about the same in 1910 as in 1909. 

The -total value of the merchandise 
imported from Canada during the quarter 
was £5,337,000, and that of the merchan- 
dise exported to the Dominion £5,320,000. 
The principal imports and exports in- 
cluded the following: 


Articles: Value: 
Imports: 
Wheat ic ees , .£1,950,000 
Wheat mealand flour ....... 471,000 
Baconandhams ....... we + $63,000 
Cheese caus i caseecalha 412,000 
Canned Salmon .,..,....-.. 560,000 
Exports: 
i Cotton piece goods. v.25 62+. 563;000 
Woollen and worsted, tissues 
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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Page 27. 


Grain Growers Sunshine Gui 


ANNUAL MEETING 


The annual meeting of the Grain Grow- 
ers’ Sunshine Guild of Canada was held 
at the office of Tur Grain Growers’ 
GuwwE, Sherbrooke Street, Winnipeg, 
on Wednesday, the 8th day of June. 
Present: Hon. T. M. Daly, Mr. Mac- 
kenzie, Mrs. Bishop, G. F. Chipman, 
Mrs. C. F. Nichols, W. C. Coolledge, 
Mrs. K. D. Young, Mrs. St. Louis, 
Mrs. MacMillan. 


Mr. Daly occupied the chair. 


The following. officers were elected: 
President, Mrs. N. T. McMillan, who 
agreed to act in that capacity for a period 
of three months, which was carried; 
vice-president, Mrs. C. P. Walker; second 
vice-president, Mrs. C. F. Nichols; 
third vice-president, Mrs. Biggs; fourth 
vice-president, Mrs. J. Stryker; secretary 
and organizer, Mrs. E.S. Lilley. Mr. W. 
Coolledge declined re-election as treasurer 
bu} promised to hold the office for a 
further period of one month. 


A discussion then took place, opened 
up by the chairman in regard to the pro- 
posed Girls’ Sunshine Hotels Limited, 
as to our best course to pursue regarding 
the organization and floating of a joint 
stock company, and the financing of the 
institution, _Mr. Daly spoke at Jength on 
the great need of such an institution, 
and promised his support as far as it 
laid in his power. Mrs. Nichols also 
spoke on the great need for such a home 
in this city. Finally, it was resolved 
that Mr. Coolledge and Mr. Mackenzie 
be a sub-committee to organize and go 
into. figures regarding the erection of 
such a building. This was carried unan- 
imously. 


It was proposed and seconded that the 
meetings of The Guild are to'be held on 
the first Thursday of each month at 4.30 
p-m. at the office of The Grain Growers’ 
GuipE. 


_ The following officers to be on the ad- 
visory board: Rev. J. L. Gordon, R. 
MacKenzie, T. M. Daly, K.C., Dr. and 
Mrs. Weagant, Mrs. W. J. Boyd, Rev. 
R. O. Armstrong, T. A. Crerar, John Ken- 
nedy, Mr. J. B. Anderson, Miss Parker, 
Mrs. Kalberer, and Mrs. Godfrey, with 
power to add from time to time, 


Me Me OM 
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Motto: 


In the golden chain of Friendship the 
cheerful soul leads the way. 

The way to be cheerful is not to be 
dismayed and feel hopeless when every- 
thing does not go quite as one would 
wish. If we learn to make the best of 
things, no matter what happens, and 
know how to keep a brave, smiling face 
in times of adversity, we shall be halfway 
upon the journey to “‘ All Sunshine Land,” 
a land in which we should all strive to 
live. We can all dwell in that delightful 
place if we wish. All we want is a little 
unselfishness and a determination to 
make others bright and happy. Don’t 
you wish to live in “Sunshine Land?” 
Then join our Guild and learn the secret 
of always being cheerful. . 

Everyone from one day to 100 years is 
eligible for membership in the Guild of 
‘All Sunshine Land.” 

MARGARET. 


Oe Me 
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SAW THEIR PICTURE. 


Dear Margaret:—Please find enclosed 
$1.00 for Sunshine, also stamps for member- 
ship cards for Murray, Charlie, Katie and 
Laura Orchard. The picture of “Three 
Young Sunshiners”’ on page 27, issue of 
March 30, is of the first three named and 
our own taking. Thanking you in 
anticipation of the cards and wishing 
Sunshine every success. 

MRS. HAROLD ORCHARD. 
Lintrathen, Man. 


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IS COLLECTING 


Dear Margaret:—I am sending four 
handkerchiefs to you for sick people. Ialso 
enclose four post cards and some old 
stamps. Please give them to someone 
that needs cheering up. I am using my 


Conducted by “Margaret’’ 


Head Office: - 


card and will send it as soon 
I will do my best to help 


KATIE AVERILL. 


collectin, 
as it is full. 
you. 


Clanwilliam, Man. 


Re efe of 
HAS MANY PETS 


Dear Margaret:—I received my card 
andamvery gladtobea member. Welive 
about five and a half miles from Lyleton. 
In the summer we go to school at Copley, 
a little country school, but it is not open 
in winter, so we go to town school. I like 
skating and riding horseback very much. 
I read the letters in the paper and think 
them very interesting. 

We have two pet dogs named Daisie 
and Bess. They are good cattle dogs. 

JEAN RENDALL. 
Lyleton, Man. 

Your nice letter will, I know, give 
pleasure to the Chicks. I opened a “Sun- 
shine Zoo” for the children’s pets to 
join our “Sunshine Work,” but owing to 
the space being limited this work has been 


as officers, 

this purpose, 
attention. 
happiness in all directions. 


some kind act. 


be known as “‘ Margaret.”’ 


work in earnest. 


I hope to have more space 
and will then take up the entire work 
each week. Many thanks.—MARGARET. 


WILL SEND BOOKS 
Dear Margaret:—I forgot to report 


crowded out. 


what I"did for the Sunshine Guild. I am 
sorry to say that it is not much but to get a 
few subscriptions. I have had the measles 
and just got up yesterday at 11 o'clock. 
I have some more books to send yet, and 
will send as soon as possible. I have 
fairy stories and other ones. 


LEONARD EVANS. 
Nutana, Sask. 


The boys are doing well, but still the 
girls are greatly ahead of them. Hope 
you are quite strong again and_ will 
have a jolly time this year. Many 
thanks.—MARGARET. 

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SENT THE CENTS 


Dear Margaret:—We have seen in the 
paper where you were asking for one cent 
pieces. Johnny, Lennie, Hagel and I are 
sending five cents each. ishing you 


every success. 
ELLA TALLOON, 
Crewe, Man. 


THE SUNSHINE WORK 


At a meeting held in the office of Tur Grain Growers’ GuIpE on June 8th, 
the Grain Growers’ Sunshine Guild was organized. This is the same Guild 
for which Tur Guipx has for the past two years been official organ, but the name 
has now been changed and the headquarters will be in Tue Grain GROWERS’ 
Guipx Office, and the Sunshine work of Western Canada will be conducted by the 
officers of the Grain Growers’ Sunshine Guild. A large number of the men and 
women of Winnipeg who are interested in the Sunshine work have been appointed 
It is the intention to have branches organized all over the West 
and have real sunshine sent into all the homes where it is needed. 
is need of assistance in the cities and towns, the Sunshine fund will be used for 

and when there is need in the country it will be given the same 
It is hoped through the organization of 
through the efforts of Tur Grain Growers’ Gung, to relieve suffering and carry 
It costs nothing to become a member of The Grain 
Growers’ Sunshine Guild. The only fee required, is that the member shall do 
Those who wish to become associate members of the Guild, 
and take part in the conducting of the business, pay an annual fee of $1.00. 
The money thus secured is used for the organization work and if there is a surplus, 
it is used for the regular Sunshine work. 

The Sunshine Department of Tur Guipx will be directed by the same lady 
who has formerly been in charge of the work. She asks all Sunshiners to take 
note of the fact that she has changed her name from “ Marie”’ and will henceforth 
The reason for making this change is that the Inter- 
national Sunshine secretary of England writes under the’ name of ‘‘ Marie,” and 
it would be confusing to have two in the same work. The Sunshine all over the 
world is carried on under the auspices of some leading journal, such as the “‘ Ladies 
Home Journal” inthe United States, and “Family Herald’’ in England. 
the reason that Toe Gratn Growers’ GuivE has decided to take hold of this 
Sunshine is one of the most deserving objects in the world, 
and is something for which every man, woman, and child, no matter what their 
‘circumstances may be, can do splendid service. 

Buttons will be secured and sent out to every member of the Sunshine Guild. 
All correspondence should be addressed to The Grain Growers’ Sunshine 
Guild, Grain Growers’ Guide; Winnipeg. We ask all readers of Tun GutpE 
to help us carry Sunshine to every deserving case in country and city all through 
the West. This is workin which we can all join, no matter what our feelings may 
be on other subjects. Let us all give a strong support in spreading Sunshine. 


EDITOR OF THE GUIDE. 


Grain Growers’ Guide, Winnipeg 


PANTS FOR A “NEWSIE” 


Dear Margaret:—I am sending 25 cents 
to join your Sunshine Guild. Also a pair 
of pants which may fit someone that 
isn’t as big as lam. Wishing you every 
success in your good work. 

GEORGE MURRAY 
Tyvan, Sask. 

Dear. George:—I am glad to see the 
boys are waking up. The pants went to 
a newsboy and he was grateful for them. 
Many thanks. 

It costs nothing to join the “Guild.” 
Just a “kind act.” I hope to have good 
news for you all in an early issue.— 
MARGARET. 


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MANY NEW SUNSHINERS 
Dear Margaret:—Enclosed find twenty- 
five names for your Guild. Jean Rendall, 
Martha Reekie, Rommona Murray, Julia 
Ginn, Isabella Murray, Florence Ginn, 
Archie Reekie, William G. Reekie, Lillian 
Elliot, Pearl Fooke, Marjorie Fooke, 


When there 


this Sunshine Guild and 


This is 


Henrietta Murray, Verlie Morrison, Vivi- 
an Morrison, Ella Shaver, Lillian Shaver, 
Annie Reekie, Eliza Reekie, Jean Barclay, 
Florence Somerville, Margaret Dougal, 
Lizzie Reekie, Jennie Reekie, Emma 
Sommerville, Randall Reekie. 

If you send the membership cards to 
me I will give them to my friends. I saw 
in Tue Grain Growers Guipe that if 
anybody got twenty-five members they 
would get a silver medal, so I have tried 


my luck. 
MARY REEKIE. 
Lyleton, Man. 


Well done! Twenty-five members. 
This will make a fine branch, I trust; and 
do some good Sunshine work. Mary 
Reekie was one of the first correspondents 
to the Sunshine page in November, 1908. 

MARIE. 


OO 
HAROLD WAS PLEASED 


Dear Margaret:—On Tuesday I was 
much surprised and quite delighted to re- 
ceive a pretty purse with 55 cents enclosed, 
and marked on the outside of the box ‘‘Sun- 
shine Guild.” Please accept my many 
thanks for your kind thoughtfulness. 


Every Child Should Join the Sunshin 
Guild 
Sign the form below. 

Dear Margaret:—I should like to 
become a member of your Sunshine 
Guild. Please send membership card 
I enclose two cents stamps for its 
postage. 


Mame iegect eG Gin Se Seer en 


The money I shall use to a great extent 
in buying beads and wire to make bead- 
work. I am very fond of the bead work. 
We little boys work on it two or three 
nights a week directly after supper. We 
have supper at 5.80 p.m., and after working 
a Jittle while I go to bed at 7 o’clock. I 
am in the best of health so far, and am 
doing nicely in most of my. classes. 
Hoping to hear from you soon and thank- 
ing you again. I remain : 
HAROLD GREEN. 
Ontario Institution for the Blind, 

Purse and contents came from a 
Sunshine baby for Harold, and he was 
greatly delighted. Harold returns from 
school on the 15th of June, and will be 
with us at the Exhibition, so that any of 
the loving friends who helped us will be 


‘able to see our ‘‘ Sunshine Boy.” 


ee ote 
THE SUNFLOWER BRANCH 
Dear Margaret:—By the time you will 
be thinking that your Sunflower Branch is 
getting lazy, but we have a pretty good 


excuse. Our president has been in the 
hospital undergoing an operation. But 
she is out now and almost well. We 


have now started work in earnest, but 
are sorry to inform you that two of our 
members have decided to leave your most 
helpful club. We are returning their 
membership cards. We have already 
one dollar and a half in the emergency 
fund, but as stated before we have just 
started. We have arranged to have a 
garden party in a few weeks time, selling 
ice cream, lemonade, and other refresh- 
ments. We would be pleased if you could 
suggest something for the amusement of 
the people who attend. We will also 
give a short programme. As we are all 
farmers’ daughters, we will have no 
trouble in getting fresh eggs and butter, 
and our mothers have promised to make 
up a box for us. 

Warwick, Alta. 

Glad to hear of your good work and also 
of the garden party. I will forward you 
a list of suitable amusements by mail, 
and wish you all success. Be sure and 
let me have a full report for Tar Guipn. 

MARGARET. 
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CHEERS FOR MARGARET 


Dear Margaret:—I received your letter. 
I did not receive the badge. I would 
like to have it in pendant form, please. 
I have been away for a holiday and I 
did not get much chance for writing. I 
am afraid I could not start a Sunshine 
Circle around here, but I will get all the 
members I can. I think you will have to 
stir the boys up a little. I haven’t seen 
a letter from a boy for a long time until 
last week’s issue. Sunshiners, don’t you 
think we ought to give three cheers for 
Margaret? Well, I guess I will close now, 
wishing the Guild and its helpers every 


success. 
GLADYS BOERMA (Age 12) 
Alwyne Farm, 
North Battleford, Sask. 

Yes, I think it is time the boys began 
to work for Sunshine or I am afraidthe 
girls will be so far ahead of them that 
they will never catch up. Now, boys we 
want to hear from you.— MARGARET. 

ee & 
THIS WILL HELP 

Dear Margaret:—I am enclosing my 
subscription card with one dollar and 
fifteen cents. I am sorry it is not more, 
but trust it will be of some good. Best 


wishes. : 
LAURA HAINSTOCK, 
Kelloe. 
Well done. The children are certainly 


making a grand show for Sunshine work. 
‘ MARGARET. 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


Conducted by “ISOBEL” 


Home Dressmaking 


Little Boy’s or Girl’s One-piece Dress 
with <iickers attached to an under-waist. 
This is the simplest and easiest little 
garment to make and wash an iron that 
can well be desired for children up to 
five or six years. The little knickers be- 
long to the suit and are made of the same 
material, Any handy woman can make 
her own pattern by using any well- 
fitting old one for the neck, shoulders and 


under arm lines. Take a few measure- 
ments for the child for the lower part, 
and cut from a newspaper first. Fit 
against the child and then cut from the 
material, which may be gingham, heavy 
chambray or even galatea in any color 
desired. The five-year size requires two 
and one-half yards of goods twenty-seven 
inches wide. Notice that the little skirt 
just exposes the knickers and no more. 


Misses’ Dress 


This pretty model is very suitable for 
a slender figure. The dress is semi- 
princess and is made up of a waist and 
skirt joined by a belt. The waist is 
tucked both back and front from each 
shoulder seam and gathered. a little into 


the belt. The neck may be high and 
finished with a standing collar, or it 
may be cut high and just faced without 
a standing collar. If for evening wear it 
may be cut out a little, either square or 
round, and finished with a piece of edging, 
or it may have a square yoke of contrast- 
ing material, the same being used to extend 
the sleeve below the elbow. 


The skirt has a plain front gore, reaching 
from belt to hem, to which a fitted yoke 
is added that meets without any fulness 
at the back. The yoke portion is length- 
ened by a straight flounce, gathered, 
which measures about three and one-half 
yards at the lower edge. The dress 


closes in the center back. This design: 


may be modelled in one of the pretty tub 
fabrics and trimmed with lace, insertion, 
or embroidery. 

A miss of sixteen will require eight yards 
of goods, twenty-seven inches wide. 
This style is designed for misses of fourteen 
to eighteen years. 


ow 


Girl’s Dress.—A most convenient little 
garment is the one here _ illustrated. 
It opens all the way down the back to 


the bottom of the skirt and fastens under. 


a fly. The skirt is straight on the lower 
edge and is plaited all around, the plaits 
turning backward on both sides from a 
box plait in the centre front. The plaits 
in the skirt are so adjusted as to appear to 
bein one with the waist, which is pleated 
also. Waist and skirt are sewed together 
and a belt or sash covers the join. The 
neck of the dress may be finished with a 
standing collar or cut out either square 
or round as desired. 


The bishop sleeves may be made 
full length. This pretty design will be 
appropriate made from any of the cotton 
or light-weight wool fabrics, such as 
challie, delaine, or cashmere. Linen, 
a fabric very popular just now, would be 
admirable made from this style. Four 
and a half yards of goods, twenty inches 
wide, will make a dress for a girl of eight 
years. The design is suitable for girls 
from six to twelve years. 


Two Views of Skirt 


A Very Serviceable Skirt one that has 
not too much front fulness is developed 
here from any of the heavy cotton or 
linen wash fabrics. It measures about 
four and a quarter yards round the bottom 
when the plaits are stretched out. The 
plaits are grouped so as not to appear 
ungraceful when the wearer is walking. 
This skirt is cut in seven gores and may 
be finished in round or shorter lengths. 
It is closed at the center back. The 
plaits are stitched well below the hip 
so that they will not fall out of place 
if well pressed. 

For a woman of medium size this skirt 
design will require 414 yards of forty- 
two inch material, 


GOOD-BYE 


Under date of June 2nd, Mrs. C. A. 
Johnson, of Water Glen, who has appeared 
in our page as an opponent of the so-called 
woman’s cause, writes to say ‘‘good-bye”’ 
and tells us that she and Mr. Johnson 
are at Calgary en route to Europe, where 
they mean to study the ‘women’s rights 
question,” and will give the page the full 
benefit of the investigation on her return. 
She asks that the readers desist from 
“saying horrid things in reply to her 
last page letter” till she returns, as she 
doubtless wishes to receive the full measure 
of the disciplining. 

The page extends to Mr. and Mrs. John- 
son a hearty bon voyage, and hopes they 
may have a pleasant over-land journey 
and a safe return to the Canadian West. 


June 15th, 1910 


Back of Coat 


Girl’s Dress 


Summer Coat.—A very attractive gar- 
ment is here shown, one within the capa- 
bilities of the average seamstress if made 
without lining. This coat is of the three- 
quarter fitted style and may be cut 
twenty-cight inches or longer if preferred. 

The front closing is made with buttons 
and button holes, or invisibly with a fly. 
The notched collar may be of the material 
or of some contrasting color, in which 
case the cuffs should match. 

Any of the washable suitings would be 
suitable made from this style and the 
light weight woollens would develop 
well also. This coat is generally and 
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The Duchess of Fife 


Though the English Royal Family 
have been singularly happy and fortu- 
nate in their marriages, none has proved 
happier thin the marriage between the 
late King’s eldest daughter and the Duke 


of Fife, de: spite the fact that the Duke. 


is nigh sevemteen. years the senior of her 
Royal Highmess: The marriage was the 
outcome of the most spontaneous affec- 
tion; the Duke of Fife had known the’ 
Princess since she was a baby, for he was 
an intimate friend of the Royal Family, 
and. was specially well liked by his 
Majesty. 

As the yoting Princess grew from child- 
hood into girlhood, it became evident to 
those in the immediate entourage of the 
Prince of Wales’s household that there 
was a probability of the then Earl of 
Fife becoming more closely related to 
the Royal Family than by mere ties of 
friendship, and the Prince frankly wel- 
comed the prospect. But an engagement 
between .» noember of the Royal Family 
and a sulject cannot be lightly entered 
into or ratifred all at once. It was nee- 
essary that. the Sovereign should con- 
sent. to the engagement, and the Princess 
and her loveir were kept on tenderhooks 
some little while before Queen Victoria 
finally decided that the engagement 
between them might be announced. 

There was no question at all about 
the personal liking with which all. the 
Royal Family regarded the Duke of Fife, 
but the point that had to be considered 
was how far the marriage of the Heir 
Apparent’s eldest daughter to a sub- 
ject might prove generally acceptable 
to the people of the country. As a matter 
of fact,when the engagement was announ- 
ced, it became at once evident that there 
was no need to fear for its popularity. 
All sections of the community seemed to 
think it far mo.te fitting that the Princess 
Royal should ally herself in marriage 
with the head .of an ancient and noble 
house, who was a‘lso enormously: wealthy, 
than become the consort of some foreign 
and perhaps needy’ Prince. 

Among her marty weddirig presents, 
the Princess receivi:d a diam.ond bracelet 
.from the wives of the then C:abinet Minis- 
ters; a deputation of these ladies, es- 
corted by Mr. Balfcrur, a:waited on the 
Princess on the day before her marriage 
to present her with the ‘bracelet, which 
the Princess now constantly wears and 
numbers : among her, ‘most treasured 
possessions. ! 

The Duke’s best man was, by the way, 


. Lord Farquar, then Mr. Horace Farquar, 


a solitary commoner; aniidst a crowd 
of titled personages, most of whom were 
Royalties.. The, Duchess! of Fife ever 
since her marriage |has led a singularly 
simple and. very happy ‘life. When a 
Princess) marries ‘it: is |customary for her 
to: have an official household of her own 
and .to, appoint \a certain number 
ladies-in-waiting. \ But the Duchess’ of 
Fife expressly; desired that after her marri- 
age she ‘should not) be under the necessity 


of ‘having a “household’’\ in; the sense 


_that the \word is. understood/ at. Court, 
and she did not appoint any lady-in- 
waiting.» | | / 

It» would: be, . however, ;contrary to 


- etiquette; for. the daughter of the Sov- 
-ereign to attend any public or even large 


social funetion unattended,’ but . when 


- the Duchess of Fife d'oes so, she' gets over 
- this ental 

- someone of . A 
waiting. for \the occasion. 


quite: easily. by asking 
er friend's to act as lady-in- 
The Mar- 
quise d’Hautool, for, example, who is 
an old frieud .of her Royal Highness, 
has frequently acted as_lady-in-waiting 
to the Duchess. Her Royal Highness 
spends a great. deail sof her time at Mar 
Lodge, where her | two children, _the 
Princesses Alexandima and Maud, lived 
almost altogether until they had reached 
the ages of seven and @ ight. { 


The Princesses have been brought up 
in quite a. simple me nner; they both 
occupied the same: sla *ping apartment 
for many years and had only the services 
of one maid. The Duch ess of Fife, by 
the way, and her two sisb 2rs, in the days 
of their early girlhood, ms ed all to sleep 
in the same room: at Sardi agham. ws 

Once when the Princesse 8 were giving 
a children’s entertainment, the Princess 
Maud was attack ed with a ch, ‘ll and, much 
to her disappoi etment, was, unable to 
come downstairs; the Prine ‘ss . Maud 
pleaded to be allowed to stay with her 
sister, but it was pointed out to her that 
it was necessary she should hel) ) 12 Tre- 


ceiving her litt’le guests. At }) 'e last 


of - 


moment, however, the Princess declared 
that she, too, had contracted a cold, 
in proof of which she gave vent to several 
sneezes. This little ruse to be allowed 
to remain upstairs with her sister was seen 
through, but her Royal Highness was, 
nevertheless, permitted to have her own 
way. 

The Duchess of Fife has travelled 4 
great deal with her children of late years, 
for she is a strong believer in the edu- 
cational value of travel for young 
people. Both of her children are clever 
and extremely good linguists, but more 
especially the Princess Maud, who can 
speak quite fluently in French, German 
and Italian. 

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HOW JAPANESE BABIES ARE NAMED 


In Japan a curious custom js in. vogue 
with respect to the naming of babies. 
The newborn is taken to temple when it 
has attained the age of two weeks, and to 
the priest who receives him the father 
of the little one suggests three names 
deemed to be appropriate. The priest 
writes these three names on slips of paper. 
He holds these slips of paper for a few 
moments, and then throws them over 
his shoulder, sending them as high in 
the air as possible. The slip that reaches 
the ground last contains the name that 
is conferred on the waiting babe. 

The next step in the process is for the 
priest to copy the name on a piece of 
silk or fine paper, which is handed to the 
proud parent with these words: 

“So shall the child be named.” 


ww ow 
THAT TIRED FEELING 


Is it true, as Mr. Bok says, that when 
we are tired we are poisoned? He says 
““When the mind or body becomes much 
fatigued there are manufactured within 
us certain poisonous products. 
rest there is a manufacture of corres- 
ponding antidotes. Nature creates an 
anti-toxin to meet the toxin of great 
weariness. Rest is nature’s medicine 
which we ourselves, should prescribe 
and not indulge in a physician’s drugs. 
What we should get after are the fatigue 
poisons. When these poisons make them- 
selves felt in ‘that tired feeling’ it is 
nature’s signal to slow up on the work— 
to rest. In rest lies the cure. If we fail 
to do this but keep on, the new poisons 
from the new fatigue reinforce the poison 
already in the body and constant fatiguing 
means a certain breakdown. 


“If we live properly we will get tired 
certainly but we give ourselves a rest 
sufficient to overcome the poison of fati- 
gue and so. retain normal health. 

“We ought to get a clearer idea into our 
heads of just what brings about ‘that 
tired feeling.” We have it more often 
at this time of year, which simply means 
that we have pushed ourselves too far 
during the winter and when the exhilera- 
tion of cold weather passes we have not 
the vitality to overcome the poisons 
in our systems. What we need is not 
the barbaric foolishness of a spring 
medicine or a tonic, but simply a period 
of rest. We want to let go, relax the ner- 
ves and give the anti-toxin that comes 
from rest a chance to push out the poi- 
sonous toxin which fatigue has produced.” 


That is the only safe, sane and sure 
cure for that tired feeling. Why should 
not Mr. Bok’s theory be true? Why will 
not certain germ cultures thrive in certain 
conditions if the blood produced by sheer 
weariness, as well as in certain conditions 
produced by other causes. The idea is 
new but reasonable. Without analysing 
the cause of “that tired feeling” to its 
very inception as does Mr. Bok, the very 
first item in the prescription of every 
physician dealing with a working patient 
is rest. Rest is enforced, first and last. 
Yet how many workers follow the pre- 
scription? A doctor cannot compel them; 
he can only advise and so he says rest 
and gives a tonic to help tide over the 
bad place till rest completes the cure. 


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as gently as I could, but the matter did 
not end there. He was persistent, and 


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as regularly as once a month he appeared 
at my door to ask if there was yet any 
opening for him. 

Now, [ like persistence if exercised along 
proper lines, and, the more I saw of him, 
the more I liked the boy. But what to 
do with him was the question. He was 
too big for an errand boy, and too green 
looking for any of the departments, and 
yet I had not the heart to discourage him 
entirely. 

“At length a vacancy occurred in the 
general office; the boy who looked after 
the letter files and attended to the copy- 
ing left us; and, just as I was casting 
about for a suitable successor, John ar- 
rived again. ‘ 

“When I asked him for references, 
however, he looked dazed, and I was 
forced to explain that he must have some- 
one vouch for his business ability, pune- 
tuality, and conscientiousness, when he 
smilingly assured me that he could give 
me such a letter and went out with flying 
feet. The next day he handed me this 
remarkable epistle, and on the strength 
of it I hired him:— 

“Dear Sir,—This to certify that I 
never have to call my son John but once 
in the morning. He does his chores 
around the house and farm exactly when 
they should be done, and without having 
to be told more than once how to do them. 
He knows when not to talk, and that there 
is time for work as well as play. He has 
also learned the meaning of ‘mine and 
thine.’ I can conscientiously reeommend 
him to any position within the scope of 
his intelligence to fill. 

“Signed, John Mortimer’s Father.” 


“T figured that any father who had 
thus made sure of the foundation of his 
boy’s character would look after his fur- 
ther training, and I should be safe in 
hiring the boy with such a backing. 
I did, and have had no cause to regret it; 
for his career has more than justified 
his. unusual recommendation. He has 
risen rapidly, from his former position, 
and, as he is still young, there is every 


opportunity for him to go still higher.” 
Maude E. S$. Hymers, in Spare Mo- 
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He who has courtesies for those only 
who are of equal or superior station is 
lacking in the graces of genuine nobility. 


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is the right use of to-day. The stone 
in the hands of the builder must be put 
in its place and fitted to receive another, 
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Spoiling the Farmer? 
Continued from page 7 


$1.60 below the price. And then when he 
got them to market he got not only 
$10.50 per cwt., but in many cases they 
were in such good demand that he got 
$10.65. He sure made money on those 
hogs. 

Now, don’t think this is a surmise of 
what might have happened. I know 
that the drovers had this guarantee, 
for three different buyers told me so 
as an excuse for the price they were pay- 
ing when their letters had quoted prices 
much lower. Just think of the injustice 
done the farmer. Many drovers bought 
hogs for $9.00 per cwt., a dollar and a 
half below the real market price, literally 
stealing fifty cents per hundred pounds 
from every farmer whom they purchased 
from. Nice guileless sort of a fellow, 
this drover, isn’t he? 

Not entirely convinced that he’s crook- 
ed yet? Well then here’s a case where 
they admitted it themselves. 

Some time ago, while market editor 
on another paper, I got an idea from a 
Minnesota paper, for letting the farmer 
know exactly what his stock sold for at 
the yards. The idea was simple, but as 
things worked out, impossible to put into 
execution for any great length of time. 
It- was simply this. The names of the 
shippers to the market together with their 
shipments (thus, John Blank, Carman, 
. 12 cattle, 10 hogs, 1 bull, 1 calf) were 
published. Following was a list of the 
purchases by the abattoir companies 
for the day, giving the number of animals 
purchased, the average weight and the 
price per ewt. (thus,12 cattle, average 
weight, 1050 pounds, $6.00 per cwt.) 

It was an easy matter for the farmer 
to ascertain what his stock sold for. 
Each day a list of the shippers and ship- 
ments are posted in the stock yards office 
so that part of the system was easy enough. 
The next step was to get their purchases 
from the abattoir companies. Two of 
the larger companies and one of the smal]- 
ler complied, while one large company 
and one small one refused. I made a 
start with these and things went well 
for a week or so. 


Spoiling the Farmer. 


One morning I arrived at the yards 
and was met by a highly indignant dro- 
ver, who was boiling over with his cha- 
grin. Heimmediately started in to tell 
me how little he thought of the system. 

“Why?” T queried. 

“You're spoiling the farmer,”’ was his 
answer and his voice fairly quivered 
with indignation. 

‘** How’s that?” 

“Why all he has to do is read the mar- 
ket report and he can tell what his stock 
sold for: How do you expect me to make 
anything op it?” 

Spoiling the farmer. What do you 
think of that. Spoiling him by trying 
to see that he got a square deal. Spoiling 
the farmer by trying to keep) the drover 
honest. Rather say,.spoiling the drover. 
But that would hardly do either for you 
can’t spoil a bad egg. heey 

Later in the morning, the manager of 
one of the abattoirs sdid that he couldn’t 
give out their purchases any more for 


use in’ that manner; that the drovers. 


were all “hollering,” giving vent to their 
“spoiling the farmers” squeal and had 
teld him that he had to stop. And there 
was my little idea all spilled over. In 
fairness, | must say that one large com- 
pany and the small one before mentioned 
were willing to still give out the infor- 
mation in spite of the drovers’ kick. 

Does it need any elaboration to con- 
vince you, Mr. Western Farmer, that the 
drovers are not on the square? If he 
was dealing fairly with you, would he be 
afraid to let you know what your stock 
brought on the market? 

You all know what 
spring moring when you brought out, 
for the drover to look over, the little 
bunch of steers that you had carefully 
fed all winter. You had taken lots of 
trouble and used lots of grain in finishing 
those steers and you were proud of the 
job. That is, you were until the drover 
told you what hethoughtof them. ‘Oh 
yes.”’ he said, “‘they’re pretty good ani- 
mals, but you ought to see the ones that 
the market is flooded with. They would 
make these look like a bunch of ‘skins.’ 
This and a whole lot more. And you sell 
them to him at probably a couple of 
dollars less per ewt. than they bring on the 
market. 


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But you don’t find it out and the next 
time he comes around he tells you of the 
heavy shrinkage on the trip, of the fine 
animals that were on the market and how 
he lost money on the dea]. And then you 
do the same thing over again. It’s not 
the right system. You're not selling on 
a competitive market. It wouldn’t do 
to say that the drovers have agreements 
as to territory. But did you ever have 
two of them on your place at the same time 
bidding for your stock? 


Who’s Spoiling You? 


Yes, you're being spoiled alright, 
but it’s the drover who is spoiling you; 
spoiling your rightful profits and spoiling 
your efforts to make a success of your live 
stock husbandry. 

So much for the abuse. Is there a 
remedy? There is; in some cases it is 
easily worked out, in others it is extremely 
difficult at the present time. In this, 
as in other needed changes, the remedy 
lies with the farmer himself. 
must co-operate in their shipments of live 
stock 

The live stock industry of Western 
Canada has not as yet attained such 
proportions that each farmer has a full 
carload of stock to ship, in fact some have 
only three or four animals. In a district 
where the farms are far apart and the 
animals few on each farm, it is not likely 
that the drover con be gotten rid of for 
a long time to come. It is only justice 
to him to say that in such districts he 
earns his profits on a carload shipment. 
It takes a long time to get one together. 

But district after district that are now 
doing practically all their shipping through 
drovers, should change their system. «In 
these districts, where each farmer has a 
fair number of animals, say from twenty 
to thirty hogs, or five to ten cattle, it is 
only a matter of a few hours to make up 
a carload lot. 

A car can easily be divided into suitable 
sections, when the shippers only number 
two or three, and each farmer’s stock 
kept by itself. The barriers between 
these sections should be made strong 


enough to obviate any possibility of the ° 


shipments becoming mixed. 
Co-operative Marketing. 


Then one of the shippers may accom- 
pany them to market and sell them direct 
to the abattoir. In this connection an 
incident that happened a few years ago 
is interesting. The head of the buying 
department of a Winnipeg abattoir 
company addressed a meeting of farmers 
at Brandon. In the course of his remarks 
he urged the farmers to raise hogs in suffi- 
cient quantities to ship direct to the mar- 
ket. A voice from the audience asked 
him if his company would pay as much 
to the farmer who had only one shipment 
a year as they would pay a drover who 
was a regular shipper,for the same animals. 
The speaker replied that they certainly 
would and be glad to. It wasn’t long 
before he heard from the drovers, in fact 


The farmers . 


the very next day they denounced him 
for the policy he had given utterance to, 
claiming that a farmer shipper should 
not get as much as the drover. What 
magic has the drover by which animals 
passing through his hands are given a 
greater value than if they were shipped 
direct by the raiser? , 

Then, if none of the farmers care to take 
the responsibility of disposing of the ship- 
ment, there are the commission firms who 
will sell the shipment for $10 per carload. 
(These firms do for $10 what a drover 
gets nearly $60 for doing). I am of the 
opinion that the system of having a 
commission’ man handle the stock is the 
best. If one of the farmers accompanies 
the stock to take care of them, so much 
the better, but let the commission man 
do the selling. He has a superior know- 
ledge of market conditions and his charge 
is most reasonable. 


Commission Dealers. 


He has to play fair with the farmers, 
His reputation for squareness and _ his 
ability to sell stock-at high prices are his 
stock in trade. They must do good 
business to get business to do. Every 
time they top the market.it is an advertise- 
ment of the best kind for them. They 
work hard to,get high prices and are just- 
ly proud of it when they-reach the coveted 
“top.”’ For example, in the country 
letter of a Winnipeg commission firm, 
last week, this statement was given. great 
prominence. “The ‘top of yesterday’s 
market ‘was $6.40, this price being paid 
for three loads of Alberta cattle, which 
we sold after being fed and watered.’ 
Another advantage of having a commission 
man do the trading is that it relieves the 
farmer, who accompanies the stock, 
of a whole lot of responsibility. Should 
it happen that the farmer sold the ship- 
ment himself andhis stock brought more 
per hundred pounds than the other fel- 
low’s it is probable that they would never 
be friends again. 

There is no originality in the sugges- 
tions contained in this article. ‘These 
things have been worked out long ago in 
Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas and other 
live stock producing States, and in these 
the drover is away in the minority. The 
farmer takes his stock to: market and has 
found out that the commission man can 
do better for him than he can do for him- 
self. Witness the success of the commis- 
sion firms at Chicago, Omaha, Sioux City, 
Kansas City and other centres, who have 
shown the farmers that they could get 
the right prices for stock. Every day 
their offices are full of farmers who have 
brought in ‘their stock but make no 
attempt to dispose of them personally. 
They have found that the commission 
men could get more for them. The live 
stock commission man can in no sense 
of the word be called a middleman. 
He simply receives a reasonable recom- 
pense for services performed. 


It is not anticipated that these changes 
can be brought about in a short period 


of time, But as the coutry becomes more 
and more settled, and the number of 
live stock raised becomes greater and 
greater, the farmer will come to realize 
that the present system is wrong and 
the drover will have had his day. 


% Me Me 
se Me 


The White Stag 


Continued from page 10 


Tomah and Baptiste left them howling 
about the body of the stag and stole 
away to their camp. In the morning 
they found him just as he had fallen; 
not a wolf had touched the flesh. No 
mysterious chase ever. again disturbed 
them, but they- hunted. and -trapped 
and poisoned the wolves till a howl 
seldom echoed about the lake, 

Noel finished his story; and only the 
roar of the storm and the singing of the 
birch logs on the fire broke the silence 
for several minutes. Then I said: 

*“Noel, you think old Indian’s: spirit 
in that white stag?” 

“Sartin’,’’ said Noel. 

“Suppose Tomah and Baptiste don’t 
find old Indian and bury him, how long 
his spirit stay in stag and fight wolves?” 

But Noél just believes things and inter- 
prets only what he sees. He leaves specu- 
lation to the white man, and so he never 
answers such questions. 


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Page 81 


Summary of The Week’s News of The World 


Manitoba Elevator Commission 


The past week has been a busy one for 
the Manitoba Elevator Commission and 
their work is beginning to show up in 
rather large figures. They have been 
in active existence but a little over two 
weeks, and yet over one-third of the 
shipping points of Manitoba have made 
application for petition forms. Applica- 
tions have been received from over a 
hundred districts, and it is practically 
certain that every petition will be returned 
with signatures of the required sixty per 
cent. 


During the week the commission moved 
into their quarters in the Henderson 
block, installed an office force and are 
now at business in earnest. The new 
offices have been fitted especially for the 
needs of the commission, are well lighted 
and ample in size. 


Necessarily some time elapses between 
the time that petitions are sent out and 
their return with the signatures, but in 
the short time that they have been in 
the country a satisfactory number have 
been returned. The tone of the letters 
in every case is very enthusiastic over the 
prospect of a system of public owned 
elevators. While the requests are coming 
in with remarkable dispatch the members 
of the commission are not yet satisfied 
but want to have petitions in circulation 
in at least two-thirds of the districts 
within a week of this writing. Manitoba 
farmers certainly want public elevators, 
and it is up to them to get busy with the 
petitions as an expression of their desire. 


Some districts have been held back by 
an incomplete understanding of the 
guarantee clause. The following question 
was received by Tus Guipr during the 
week: 

“When a man signs a petition asking 
the Government to build or buy an eleva- 
tor, he also signs a pledge to support that 
elevator so long as sufficient accommoda- 
tion is provided by this government grain 
elevator, maintained and operated there; 
now in signing this petition does he not 
sign away the right that is now granted 
him by the Manitoba Grain Act, Le., the 
right of loading his grain over the platform 
or even selling to an independent buyer, 
should there be one at the place? In 
other words does he not deprive himself 
of the rihgt that he now has of handling 
his grain as he pleases and at the same 
time obligate himself to patronize this 
government concern?” 


The question was turned over to the 
commission, and the following reply has 
been received, that states conclusively 
that none of the present rights of the 
farmers will be taken away: 


“Replying to yours of the 7th, the 
petition which the commissioners are 
asking the grain producers to sign, con- 
taining the pledge, is interpreted as 
follows: When the Government comes to 
consider the erection of an elevator, some 
means must be deviesd to ascertain the 
actual storage requirements at that 
point, and if sixty per cent, of the grain 
producers tributary, signify by signing 
a petition their intention to patronize 
such elevator, the Commissioners would 
feel justified in proceeding with the 
erection of same. Nothing in this petition, 
however, prohibits a shipper from using 
the loading platform if he so desires 
but it is expected that when the govern- 
ment has established a thoroughly efficient 
elevator, with ample storage facilities, 
that the grain producers will co-operate, 
and as far as possible patronize the public 
elevator, giving the system a thorough 
trial. 


“As there seems to be an impression 
that the inauguration of the public eleva- 
tor system might tend to interfere with 
and regulate the disposition of grain 
shipments, let it be clearly understood 
that the Government will not engagein 
the business of buyers and sellers of grain, 
but simply as warehousemen propose to 
operate the elevator, or storage facilities 
of the province, and, grain producers are 
absolutely free to dispose of their grain 
to whom they please.” 


Manrtrospa ELevator Commission, 
F. B. Macnennan. 
Commissioner. 


Following is a complete list to date of 
the districts wherein petitions are being 
circulated and every farmer resident in 
them should lend all possible aid to the 
circulator. It will be noticed that some 
points appear more than once in the list. 
This is becasue different petitions are 
being circulated in the various portions 
of the district. 

Cartright, Elkhorn, Kennville, Bins- 
carth, Cardinal, Waskada, Waskada, 
Moorepark, Castleavery, Swan Lake, 
Somerset, Grand View, Baldur, Oakville, 
Valley River, Altamont, Whitewater, 
Silver Plains, Clearwater, Sandy Lake, 
Swan Lake, MacGregor, Hamiota, Sols- 
garth, Mowbray, Lenore, St. Jean Bap- 
tiste, Riding Mountain, Manitou, Cor- 
dova, Deepdale, Roblin, Durban, Gretna, 
Makinak, Margaret, Sandford, Brunkild, 
Neepawa, Sinclair, Holland, La Riviere, 
Plumas, Kenton, Beaver, Kelwood, Sandy 
Lake, Starbuck, Gilbert Plains, Greenway, 
Giroux, Rosewood, Carman, Austen, 
Goldenshean, Killarney, Winkler, Har- 
grave, Scarth, Makaroff, Roblin, Drop- 
more, Cranner Siding, Jordan Siding, 
Binsearth, Miniota, Lyleton, Langvale, 
Windygates, Dominion City, Dominion 
City, Arnaud, Neepawa (for Howden), 
Neepawa, Neepawa (point between Hallor 


and Rapid City), Pipestone, Carroll, 
Hilton, Howden, Letellier, Griswold, 
Ochre River. Stonewall, Killarney, Fort 
River. Points on C.N.R. south of Boisse- 
vain—Christies‘ Siding,’ Kenville, Fox- 
warren, Beulah, Ridgeville, Grand View, 
Gilbert Plains, End of Virden-McAulay 
cut-off, Marackray Siding, Shellmouth. 


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GOLDWIN SMITH’S FUNERAL 


In a steady downpour of rain lasting 
all afternoon, Dr. Goldwin Smith was 
buried at Toronto, Saturday afternoon, 
in St. James cemetery after a simple 
service at the Grange and University 
Convocation hall. The gathering was 
not large but distinguished. The remains 
were removed to the Convocation hall 


in the morning and were placed before 
the platform. A few flowers from the 
conservatories at the Grange were sprink- 
led over the top of the casket. 

The body of the hall was well filled when 
at three o’clock the Rev. R. J. Moore, 
vicar of St. George’s church, announced 
the hymn‘ O Gof Our Help in Ages Past.” 
Then followed the reading of the Anglican 
ritual. Newman’s immortal hymn, “Lead 
Kindly Light,” was sung, after which 
the Rev. W. Harris Wallace, pastor of 
the Beverley Street Baptist church, read 
a scripture lesson from I. Corinthians 
xv., 20. : 

The audience remained standing until 
the casket had been removed from the 
hall. To the left of the casket the house- 
hold were seated, including Dallas Dixon, 
of Philadelphia, and E. H. Keating. 
Behind them came in a body the board of 
governors of Toronto University. On the 
right were Sir Henry M. Pellatt, repre- 
senting His Excellency Earl Grey; Hon. 
W. L. Mackenzie King, present on behalf 
of the Dominion government; Lieut.- 
Governor Gibson, Sir James Whitney 
and Senator J. K. Kerr. The others 
present were President Schurman, of 
Cornell University; Sir William Meredith, 
Sir Charles Moss, Senator Robert Jaffrey, 
Chancellor Burwash, Canon Cody, Pro- 
vost Macklem, John Ross Robertson, 
Byron E. Walker and other prominent 
citizens. 


@ULTON, PAR.LOST. 


FLOODS IN STATES. 


Reports from Arkansas, Missouri and 
West Tennessee, indicate the worst 
rain, wind and hail storms throughout 
the early morning hours and lasted at 
intervals all day and until a late hour 
Friday. Rains of a torrential nature 
fell over western Arkansas anda cyclone 
hit the towns of Pine Biuff and Hot 
Springs. Only one life was lost, that of 
David Meadows, a farmer near Fort 
Smith, Ark., who was drowned while 
riding to his house from the field on a 
mule. He rode into the backwaters 
which had overflowed a bridge and missed 
it, getting out of his depth. A San 
Francisco train went through a bridge near 
the same town, the engine getting across 
in safety, but 14 cars of merchandise 


went down. A college building at Nettle- 
ton, Ark., was completely destroyed. 
The wire service all over Arkansas was 
out of commission for several hours. 
In every city and town in Arkansas, 
west and south of Little Rock, stores 
and residences were flooded and the 
streets were running streams of water. 
Such a condition was never before known. 
Damage to crops cannot be estimated 
but it will be enormous. 


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RE TRADE TREATY. 


A Washington, D. C., dispatch of June 
10 said: The Canadian government has 
accepted the proposition of the United 
States government to negotiate a treaty 
designed to improve the trade relations 
between the two countries. The letter of 
the secretary of state to the Dominion 
government suggesting the early nego- 
tiations of a trade treaty, was sent NEey 
12 last. In its reply the Canadian 
government expressed its earnest desire 
to take up formal negotiations at as 
early a date as possible. It is regretted, 
however, that as Finance Minister 
Fielding and his associate, Hon William 
Paterson, Minister of Customs, were to 
sail for England and will be absent for 
some moths, it would not be possible 
to begin formal negotiations before the 
coming autumn. In the meantime 
Canadian experts, as well as those in 
charge of customs matters in the United 
States, will gather such data as will be 
of importance in the settlement of the 
various questions that will come before 
the commissioners of the two countries. 


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ITALIAN TRADE AGREEMENT. 


A formal announcement of the trade 
agreements which have been entered into 
by Canada with Belgium, Holland and 
Italy was made at Ottawa, Friday. 
The following are the principal Canadian 
articles which will be admitted into Italy 
under the conventional customs rates, 
which are much lower than the general 
tariff of that country. Timber and lum- 
ber, furniture,wood pulp, paper of various 
kinds, including newspaper, boots and 
shoes, tools and implements, iron and 
steel, sewing machines. 

The Italian goods to be admitted to 
this country under the Canadian inter- 
mediate tariff are macaroni and_vermi- 
celli, canned vegetables, lime juice and 
other fruit syrups, wine of certain qual- 
ities, castile soap, women’s and_ chil- 
dren’s dress goods of various kinds, 
when imported in grey or unfinished 
state for the purpose of being dyed or 
finished in Canada, velvets and velvet- 
eens, plush and silk fabrics, ribbons of 
all kinds and fine kid gloves. 


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QUEBEC CROPS INJURED 


Reports at MacDonald College, St. 
Anne, and the large market gardens of 
the island of Montreal indicate that the 
damage done by the over abundance of 
rain and unseasonable cold is of a serious 
nature. Tomatoes, potatoes, green peas, 
beans and sweet corn are entirely ruined 
by the frost of the past few weeks and the 
strawberry plants are severely injured. 
Farmers state that the grain up is at a 
standstill so far as growth is concerned 
and are looking anxiously for belated warm 
weather. Unless it is soon forthcoming 
the crops in the province of Quebec will 
be far below the average. 

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DOUBLE TRACKING. 

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company 
is preparing to continue the double track- 
ing of its line between Portage la Prairie 
and Brandon. J. G. Hargrave & Co., 
who recently completed the sub-grade 
work on the section of the line from Winni- 


peg to Portage, have been instructed to 


continue west, and will proceed at once. 
This announcement was made Thursday 
by William Whyte, second vice-president. 
The J. G. Hargrave Co. are now moving 
their outfit west of Portage, and as there 
is a considerable amount of sub-grade 
work on this section, they are preparing 
to sub-let a considerable amount of it, 
for it is hoped to complete the work be- 
fore freeze-up. Next spring the C.P.R. 
will proceed with the track-laying and 
it is hoped that the double track will be 
ready by about a year from now, or at 
least well before the grain movement 
starts. 


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REMARKS ON THE WORK OF THE 
SASKATCHEWAN ELEVATOR 
COMMISSION 


The Saskatchewan elevator commission 
by their perambulations through the 
country appear to be finding out: —_ First, 
that there is an almost universal dis— 
satisfaction with the present system; 
second, that there is a strong sentiment 
in favor of having thé elevators operated 
as a public utility; third, that there is 
a very widespread intention to patronize 
the public system if it be established; 
fourth, that under existing competition 
farmers’ elevators find it difficult to secure 
enough grain to make them pay, hence 
a state aided system would in all probabi- 
lity also fail to pay, as being just as liable 
to competition, no more assured of support 
on account of financial interest than the 
present system of farmers’ elevators, and 
possessing none of the solid anvantages 
which a system operated by the state 
would enjoy over all others and which 
students of the question have always 
urged can be depended upon to offset the 
lure of cheap storage by private owners 
and attract sufficient patronage to assure 
a self-supporting system almost from the 
first. Fifth, that farmers, as a class, 
have evidently not been making a study 
of the details of the system (either as to 
creation or operation) as demanded by 
them. They have relied on their leaders 
and representatives for details, which is, 
unfortunately, just what one would 
expect.in the present state of democracy. 


Since, the commissioners are aware 
that it is to certain features which a public 
system possesses and which no_ private 
or semi-public system can have, it would 
appear desirable that they should endeavor 
to find out just how attractive these 
features appear on the minds of the farm- 
ers. For example, the farmers might be 
asked: ‘Would the fact that you could 
clean grain before shipment and retain 
the ‘screenings at home imfluence you 
in patronizing the public system? or the 
guarantees of full weight and proper 
dockage? or the ability to get weight and 
grade and borrow money before either 
sale or shipment? or the privilege of selling 
on sample? or securing carlot prices for 
small lots? or making sure that the grain 
could not be used by dealers or millers 
before it was sold? or a government loan 
at a low rate of interest where grain was 
stored in the public system?” 

It might also be well for the commis- 
sioners to estimate how much value a 
campaign of education would have in 
convincing the farmers generally of the 
advantages immediate and more remote, 
which would flow from a patronage of 
public elevators. Also how far advice 
and encouragement to farmers to refuse 
to sell locally but:to force the domestic 
millers who have elevators at country 
points to bid against the outside buyers 
in the sample market, ensuring in the end 
even bigger premiums for the kind of 
wheat they prefer than they are now 
paying, would have the effect of inducing 
such millers to sell out their elevators. 
Leaving out all chance of undue advantage 
at country points, it would surely pay 
to get storage at cost in a public system 
and keep one good sample buyer at the 
central market rather than a. hundred 
second rate ones at country points, 

The experience of the commissioners 
in the country will no doubt clarify their 
views on many points. 

The next. step will in all probability 
be an examination of the memorandum 
the Direetors of the Central Grain 
Growers’ Association will lay before them, 
after which a conference with the 
executive of that body will be in 
order and likely to result in a 
practical scheme for a state system 
operated as a public utility expected ul- 
timately toinclude all storage. E. A. P. 


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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


FRENCH AIRSHIP FLEET 


Jn a few months’ time the French army 
will be in possession of a powerful fleet of 
airships which will stand even before 
that of Germany. The sums voted by 
parliament, together with that pro- 
duced by public subscription, will en- 
able the Republic to possess fourteen 
airships and thirty aeroplanes, which 
have been ordered from various manu- 
facturers as the result of competitions. 

Amongst the dirigibles, which are 

being supplied, is one of a new type 
invented by the engineer Labro, which 
has been selected by the committee 
appointed by the ministry of war. 
_ The new dirigible will take part 
in the army manoeuvres in Septem- 
ber and is considered to be superior 
in several respects to all the existing 
aerial cruisers. It is of the semi-rigid 
type. Its shape is like a cigar, and is 
seventy-six metre long and eight metres 
broad. The balloon, which has a capaci- 
ty of 5,000 cubic metres, has inside seven 
air-tight compartments each of which 
contains a separate balloon, The dirigible 
will have two cars, one at each end. 

These are joined together by a rigid 
bar made of metal consisting of aluminum 
and metallic salts, which gives it great 
resisting power combined with lightness. 
It is principally in the metal employed 
that the novelty of the invention con- 
sists, the weight of the rigid parts being 
only 800 kilos, or 300 less than that of 

This is a transverse rigid bar sup- 
porting its propellers, and three mo- 
tors of 80 horse power each are carried 


in one of the cars. It will carry eight 
passengers, and is capable of an eleven- 
hour run at the rate of fifty miles an hour, 
which is almost double that of any exis- 
ting dirigible. The new airship will cost 
about $50,000. 


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SIR WILFRID’S TOUR 


The dates for Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s 
principal meetings in the west, during 
his forthcoming tour, will be as follows: 


Port Arthur! a... cae ee July 9 
Winnipeg oc. cen es dade July 11 
StrANNGS lo eae ee eed Bae Sees July 13 
Mordet sisi. oseta va ceada debe July 15 
Somerset: ical eau al vee sens July 16 
Brandon ccs cece cece deen es July 18 
Yorkton ios ial lew eae 5 July 20 
Melville | occa ee July 22 
Humboldt ............. 5.000. July 25 
Prince Albert ..........50 eee July 27 
Saskatoon 1.6 iia Pepe oy . July 29 
Regitia ss. hae Gee ep ee: c0 August 1 
Weyburti . 2. fie cence ce wdc August 3 
Moose Jaw ... Seeeewe ss August. -6 
Edmonton .4.0...0.:.000060- August 9 
Red Deer .........00 200006 August 11 
Calgary ascii s cit cag eee any August 13 
VANCOUVER ie cteds ele aiele eee August 16 
Victoria ess es Pla Cob a ass August 18 
Kamloops. 200i ei feos August 26 
Nelson execu ies vg ea a August 29 
Lethbridge... si... 8 August 31 
Medicine Hat ence eee ees Sept. 2 


Sir Wilfrid will leave Victoria on 
August 18 for Prince Rupert, returning 
to Vancouver about August 25. The 
return trip from Medicine Hat to Win- 
nipeg will be made via Calgary and 
Edmonton, the party reaching Win- 
nipeg on Sept. 5 or 6. It is expected 
that Sir Wilfrid will also pay short visits 
to the following points while en tour: 
Chater, Rapid City, Minnedosa, Lanigan, 


Warman, Melfort, Stoughton, North 
Battleford, Lloydminster, Vermillion, 
Vegreville, Fort Saskatchewan, Strath- 
cona, Wetaskiwin, Banff, Golden, Revel- 
stoke, Arrow Head, West Robson, Koote- 
nay Landing. 


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EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY 


An earthquake of unusual intensity 
occurred throughout southern Italy, in- 
cluding the island of Sicily, at 3.07 o'clock 
Tuesday morning, June 7. The full ex- 
tent of the damage wrought had not been 
determined Tuesday afternoon, but it is be 
lieved that 50 persons were killed, several 
hundred injured, and that property 
losses in certain districts will be heavy. 
The disturbance disrupted telegraph 
communication generally in the pro- 
vinces most effected and further details 
are awaited with apprehension. The 
inhabitants of the various towns which 
felt the quake were thrown into panic 
and the authorities had much difficul- 
ty in restoring order. One report told 
of five deaths in San Sole, a village of 
Potenza, in the department of Basilicata, 


The king thought that it was not 
necessary for the queen to go, as the 
situation in Avellino was not to be 
compared with that in Massina, where 
their majesties spent several days in 
alleviating the distress of the people. 
In reply to the king’s. protests, Queen 
Helena retorted: “As my presence at 
all festivities is necessary, it must not 
lack where the people die and weep. In 
the south Italians suffer; therefore 4 


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VIEWS OF WESTERN MEMBERS 


In view. of the visit of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Western Canada during July 
and August, and as the organized farmers will present to him their views upon 
the tariff, the terminal elevators, Hudson Bay Railway and chilled meat industry 
Tm Guive has asked each of the members of the House of Commons in the three 
Prairie Provinces to give their views upon these subjects. 
members will all be published in Tur Gurpe before: Sir Wilfrid arrives in order 
that the readers of Tue Guipn may know the feeling of their members. 
the present time replies have been received from the following: 

Dr. W. J: Roche, M.P. for Marquette, Man. 
Dr. F. L. Schaffner, M.P. for Souris, Man. 
Arthur Meighen, M.P. for Portage la Prairie, Man. 
Thomas McNutt, M.P. for Saltcoats, Sask. 

A, Champagne, M.P. for Battleford, Sask. 

R. S. Lake, M.P. for QuAppelle, Sask. 

Hon. Clifford Sifton, M.P. for Brandon, Man. 
D. B. Neely, M.P. for Humboldt, Sask. : 
M. Clark, M.P. for Red Deer, Alta. 

M.S. McCarthy, M.P. for Calgary, Alta. 

W. W. Rutan, M.P. for Prince Albert, Sask. 
John Herron, M.P. for MacLeod, Alta. 

Hon. Frank Oliver, M.P. for Edmonton, Alta. 


The replies of the 


Up to 


must go.” In Calatri, twenty persons 
are reported ‘dead. Calatri is a town of 
about 8,000 inhabitants, situated on the 
Ofanto river, seven miles northeast of 
Cozenza. Every house in the village 
of San Sole was damaged. Slight shocks 
continued in that district and in Valata 
that afternoon, and is it feared that more 
fatalities will be reported from other 
villages which, for a time, are cut off 
from communication with the city. 


Many houses in Calatri tumbled, 
burying the occupants in the rooms. 
Those who escaped death or serious 
injury fled terror stricken from their 
homes and into the country. Few 
waited to put on street clothes and as 
a result many subsequently suffered 
from exposure. The shocks were widely 
felt, but no damage was done in this 
immediate vicinity. News from Salerno, 
at the head of the Gulf of Salerno, 30 miles 
southeast of Naples is to the effect that 
the shock was distinct there and caused 
much damage. Details are lacking. 
The shock was felt for ten seconds in 
the provinee of Avellino. It was also 
felt strongly, but for a shorter period, 
at Cozenza, Paola, Catanzaro, Reggio, 
Botenza, Benevento, Capua and Melfi. 

There was a panic in Torre Annun- 
ziata and Torre Del Greco, where the 
inhabitants live in constant fear of an 
eruption from Mount Vesuvius. Re- 
ports from Basilicata say that the shock 
was felt severely in Potenza. Similar 
reports come from Paola and Catan- 
zaro, in the department of Calahria 
and from Palermo, on the northern coast 
of Sicily. American missionaries visiting 
Calatri, considered by some superstitious 


fanatics to be responsible for the dis- 


aster, were attacked by villagers and 
rescued by soldiers. The population 
is living in the open air. 


June 15th, 1910 


CATTLE EMBARGO 


In the House of Commons, Wednesday, 
Sir E. Strachey said that the removal 
of the Argentine cattle embargo was out 
of the question in view of the outbreak 
of disease amongst cattle in that country. 

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BIG ELEVATOR BURNED 


The McConnell Co’s elevator at Deck- 
er’s Siding on the C. N. R., ten miles north 
of Hamiota, was totally destroyed by fire 
Wednesday evening, with all contents. 
The elevator was of 45,000 bushel capacity, 
and at the time of the fire was nearly 
filled with grain. The fire was first no- 
ticed at 9.45, but was then past all control. 
The cause of the fire is unknown, but it 
is thought it might have been started 
by sparks from a C. N. R. train, which 
passed the siding at 9 o’clock. 


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AIR WAR TEST 


Two French army officers Thursday 
flew in an aeroplane from Chalons, 
France, to Vincennes, a distance of ninety 
miles, in four hours. The flight was es- 
pecially interesting as they made the trip 
with the chief purpose of investigating 
military capabilities of the aeroplane. 

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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 


Dr. William Saunders, the director of 
the experimental farms of the Dominion, 
returned to Winnipeg Thursday night 
from an extended tour of the whole 
of the wheat country between this city 
and the Rockies. The present indications 
are, said he, that the crop will be a good 
one. There has been some damage in 
certain districts, but nothing very serious, 
and there is an immense increase in the 
acreage under grain. 

Dr. Saunders had not the figures 
for Saskatchewan and Manitoba, but 
Alberta shows an increase of twenty- 
six per cent. and from what he had seen, 
Dr. Saunders estimated that the amount 
of new ground brought under tillage was 
proportionately large. He thought that 
the barley and oats had suffered more 
than the wheat. In Northern Saskatche- 
wan the plants of these grains have been 
discolored and withered, but he thought 
they could recover with favorable con- 
ditions. In Southern Alberta the winter 
wheat has been damaged by frost and ths 
dry winds which have blown the sands 
with cutting force among the young plants. 


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REWARD EMPLOYEES 


A Minneapolis wire of June 8 says: 
“Employees of the Soo Line will have 
before them the assurance of a reward for 
faithful service in the form of a fund 
that will provide an income if the pension 
plan that was put before the board of 
directors late today meets with the approvl 
of that body. The idea of making such 
payments in an manner that will carry 
money to those who may need it most. 
by reason of the comparative lack of 
opportunity to earn large incomes during 
active employment as well as to these of 
long years of service has been embodied 
ina schedule by President Edmund Pen- 
nington, and the scale is so arranged that 
the section man, whose earning power is 
smaller, gets relatively a better chance 
than the man who had greater opportunity 
to save out of what he earned, thus it 
is believed, making the Soo Line plan the 
most equitable ever evolved by a great 
corporation.” 


to be held at Shoal Lake on July 7. Very 
generous sums are bring offered for com- 
petition in the different sports, and not- 
withstanding the fact that the two 
licensed hotels are closed, ample accom- 
modation is promised by the citizens of 
Shoal Lake to all visitors, and_ their 
comforts will be well looked after. 

Shoal Lake is becoming exceedingly 
popular as a picnicing resort, and as its 
surroundings offer exceptional advantages 
for an enjoyable outing, it is expected 
that this annual affair will be more largely 
attended than ever. 

Considering the Jarge program of sports, 
the popular prices of admission, 25 cents 
for adults and 165 cents for children, 
are exceedingly reasonable. 

All farmers should endeavor to attend 
this annual event and hear subjects of 
interest to them discussed in the new 
Agricultural Hall by prominent Grain 
Growers. 

Let us all make a note of the date and 
take in this picnic.—[Advts! 


RAIN, 
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Winnipeg Market Letter 


Grain Growers’ Grain Company’s Orricn, June 13, 1910. 


Wheat.—There has been very little change or fluctuation in the market during the 
past week, The demand for cash grain has been good from exporters who have engaged 
space and have had to buy grain to fill same; while the demand from importing countries 
has been almost nothing, if any at all. Prices have steadied and are almost the same 
to-day as they were a week ago. Crop prospects have continued to be normal with 
some reports of dry weather from certain sections of the country but we think, taking 
them on a whole, they are about normal for this time of year. Of course growth seems 
to have been retarded by the cold weather during May, and it will take exceedingly 
good conditions from now on to mature the crop in good time and condition. Importing 
countries seem to be getting all the wheat they require from other sources, and in con- 
sequence are backing away from our offers continually. The American markets are 
very much higher than ours, and if it should come about (as it seems probable) that they 
have to get down to a level where they can export their grain, then it seems likely that 
our prices might decline some. On the other hand, the crop in this country and the 

nited States is far from being made, and should it not turn out up to expectations, 
then prices might advance. At the present time the market seems to be a stand off 
from whatever side you look at it. 

Oats have maintained their price, and are in good demand at present. Some oats 
are being worked almost daily for export. 

Barley has been slow sale and poor demand. 

Flax has declined some with farmers inclined to sell at these very attractive looking 
prices, but as stated before we would advise caution in selling flax. 


Liverpool Letter 
By B. Procrrr & Co., Lrp., Liverpoot, May 31. 


Since we wrote you a week ago, our market has shown another heavy decline, 
July and October wheat having come down about 2/3 per quarter. The markets 
have been quite demoralized, and it has needed no pressure from exporting countries 
to produce this; it has been brought about almost entirely by pressure of resellers. 
With markets declining daily in the way they have, millers and merchants both refuse 
to make purchases which within a few hours invariably show a loss, and until something 
occurs to re-establish confidence, such as damage to European crops, it is quite likely 
our market will continue to decline. The decline, however has been tremendous, and 
almost unprecedently fast, and whenever confidence is restored there must be a vast 
buying power awaiting. We may add that we believe any stimulus to the market 
must come from Europe. We do not think any advance from the United States will 
be likely to have any permanent effect upon prices here, as whatever the distant future 
may reveal, at present operators do not calculate upon the necessity of imports from the 
U. S. A. during the coming season. Russia.—Crop prospects very good but rain is 
needed in some sections. Should rain come within a week or ten days, the prospects 
are for a crop considerably in excess of anything yet harvested. Roumania.—Crop 
prospects favorable but rain wanted. Australia.—Shipments from this country are 
now comparatively light, and wheat for shipment is not offered at anything like the price 
of resale cargoes. India.—The market is quite steady, and natives will not sell at pre- 
sent at European parity. Argentina.—Our advices are that there is more wheat away 
back in the country than there was at this time last year, and holders are anxious to sell, 
but there is absolutely no demand. 


Liverpool General Market Report 


Corn Trappe News, May 31. 

Wheat Cargoes are about 3d to 6d lower with a small inquiry. 

Off Coast Cargoes.—30/9 (approx. 9214) asked for ‘‘ Viva,” 31/- (approx. 93) 
wanted for Bertha. 

Australian Wheat Cargoes. 31/3 (approx. 93%c.) asked for sailers of South Aust. 
and Victorian, Jan-Feb. 31/6 (approx. 944c.)probably buys 12,500 i i 

‘ ; i qrs. Victorian 

March. 31/- (approx. 93c.) probably buys a steamer of 32,000 qrs. at Teneriffe. Par- 
cels of Austarlian to Liverpool afloat or May-June offer at 30/- (approx. 90c.) 

Russian Wheat Cargoes are dull and 3d. to 6d. lower. Azoff-Black Sea May-J 
O/S offers at 30/9 (approx. 92}c. to 33/- (approx. 99c.) vanes 

River Plate Wheat Cargoes. Parcels of Barusso, afloat to London offer at 29/- 
(approx. 87c.) 


_. Canadian and U.S.A. Wheat. Parcels to Liverpool are weak at 9d. decline with 
little or no demand. Parcels to London are easy for Canadian. 


No. 1 Nor. Man. ..(Pcl. L’p’l)..May-June .............0... 31/6 approx. $ .944 
No. 2 Nor. Man. .. . ..May-June .............04, 30/9 ie 92} 
No. 8 Nor. Man. .. < « ATOR EES isos celia Se elds vs 29/- fe .87 

No..1 Nor. Man. ..(Pel. Ldn.). June-July .............00.. 32/3 ad 964 
No. 2 Nor. Man. .. . «Wtineduly-: ccc cy alo ge 31/6 ef -943 
No. 3 Nor. Man. bid :.May-June. oes cad 31/3 € . 934 


Indian Wheat. Parcels to Liverpool are depressed, with no demand and values 
are 3d. lower. 


Choice White Kurrachee (new) .Afloat .......... 00 ...000 0, 6/54 approx, 86 2-5 
Indian parcles to London are steady for near positions. rape oe 

Choice White Kurrachee ........ May-June oo. esti eas 31/3 approx. $ .932 

No. 2 Club Calcutta ........... AAGaE ul alge peace he 5 88/68 " 992 


SALES OF CARGOES TO ARRIVE 
Tuurspay, May 26. ’ 
30,000 qrs. West Aust. ......... BeL WO sai inde in edeless 82/3 approx $ .96% 
Saturpay, May 28. 
13,700 qrs. Victorian, Melbourne B-L 14/2 ..............0. 32/- approx. $ .96 


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Wepnespay, May 25. 

2,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ..... ARGAt 5 sc clge adie nnn anoaciee 32/8 approx. $ .963 
THurspay, May 26. 

2,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ....Afloat ..........0.00--0505 82/6 approx. $ .97} 
Fripay, May 27. 

2,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ..... SuneTulyp Wiese te elas 32/6 approx. $ .96} 
Saturpay, May 28. 

2,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ..... June-duly .. 6.0 Sg 32/74 approx. $ .974 

(Lonpon) 

Wepngspay, May 25. 

1,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ....Arrived ......-.-..0ee sees 83/- approx. $ .99 
Tuurspay, May 26. 

1,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ..... ML Tat wares kis siete $4/- approx. $1.02 
Fripay, May 27. 

1,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ..... June-July leit ey 82/6 approx. $ .97} 
Monpay, May 20. 

1,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ....:Afloat «2.2.00. 0+ seer ee eee 32/6 approx. $ .97} 
Turspay, May 31. k 

1,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ..... PUM a a aitibns CR Soh 82/- -approx. $ .96 

1,000 qrs. No. 2-Nor. Man. ..... June! 6560 Coe ee ES 31/6 & $ .945 

Winnipeg Futures , 


Following are the quotations on the 
week for wheat, oats and flax sold for Jun 


Winnipeg Grain Exchange during the past 
e, July and Oct. delivery. 


DATE DELIVERY WHEAT OATS FLAX 
June “8...; June. 6.8.0.0. 90225. SOP oS Ls 157 
ae See OULY. ote Meulsote DOR rises Selden’ srass 818s. eligi ARES 155 
“ Sats hos 1B BE adieu eftennatas BEE aie cia 158 
June 9.... June .......... OVE et a ees Sia Mo sie pitucea webs 156 
“ Fly aga 1 Deere ere Tk Ree ee ee 155 
“ ig i ae eee SHR akc or eens BOE ages 153 
June 10.5 2. Funes FEO! ties s ajelhvadiees BIE. Sk RE 156 
oF pete MALLY Fsghsia a2yte Rie DOE iii cs eye cee SU b seis ise ex 154 
ob ete OGbe Seed iy ee at partie aniean Res 152 
June IL. oe Tame i is BDH ads cap tneies es ESP peer in Rae 154 
‘ ioe eee OO eainaeeecen Sid oes 153 
“ Five OEE 5 ihe SBE ado deine 1d SAREE TNE ir ao 1504 
June 18... Jume oi.csiaee BOF Sica ok ae SLE iia 160 
is ely. axeociesas BOG: ce ee Sp ee 154 
* oe G GEM ids S sce adh BEE. ote case os ape BOE sire taeceoais 151 
June 14.... June .......... DOS \siste's o Shady ead ot B ACeSa ere 160 
Gy cet: BRAY Siosiats nteetor O0Bs cok heheacs NL Me tcc 158 
” ote Oct eae aners SG in -seais 5. svete nnyece Bere Suissa Sees 156 
. Oats— 

Liverpool Spot Cash Noy Ais ks vessel 3 
Australian ...... 6/10 approx. $ .98 2-5 = No.@ ...cev eee c eee es 142 
Red Walla ..... 6/9 % OPES: ON GB sis Ss tee Fae 21 
1 Nor. Man. ....6/11 ff -99 8-5) Rejectedsiies.. visits x cieie a's 9 
2 Nor. Man. ....6/83 f -96 1-5 Extra No.1 Feed......... 18 
3 Nor. Man. ....6/44 ee OL Rb Noo Reed epee: 14 
2 Hard Winter ..7/2 * 1.08:1-5: = No.2 Feed so. 38s Was 2 
Ch. White Chilian6/10 s .98 2-5 eile tis 
1 bein pre tees 6/8 - - 96 Total... 666 Gia UR 209 
Ch. . Karachi wae 

(cleaned terms) 6/5 is 92 2-5 soar 31 
oe Red rook i n Seti GaGa iy erase ; a No. A ols ee eR 6 
1 White Bombay 6/7 ¥ ‘bs eA os cnn ernaete seteiis 
Rosato ov. Y 6/3 ‘ 90 Rejected) oie eps paiasas cae 
Barusso_ ....... 6/3 ef .90 . 
Ayres North oi “ec 88 1-5 i aa ee ee a 40 
ussian spent 6/14 “t .99 8-5 ie 
ae are “ a No.1 N.W. Man. ....... 5 
Russian .......6/11 .99 3-5 Mak Mae kr aed | 
nates Rejected oo vii epee ye idcere 2 
The Weeks Grain Inspection = fotal................. nee 2s 
Werk Enpina June 7. Grand total ..36 05.6 bees 1021 840 


Note.—The weekly inspection report is 
issued on the 7th, 14th, 2lst and 28th of 
each month. 


1910 1909 
Wheat— 
No. 1 Hard White Fife ........ 1 
No. 1 Nor. ARTA \<y / 30 
No. 8 Nor? o.sieed ees 272 55 
Noi 8 Not. 645i h aos 104 90 
IN Os Bioscience cua itte bests whterrneis 14 18 
Rejected 1. vais. etsce ts 24 9 
NO grade s.i..c4is eee he 6 6 
Rejected iiic03 sae seal 20 5 
Condemned ............ 8 : 
ING. Bos ite; ahonaes Seal mete Mie 6 8 
ING), Societal estes 2 1 
Noestablished grade ..... i 1 
Total 6.0 re ik Peed 761 238 
Winter Wheat— 
No. 3 Alberta Red ....... 1 State 
Totals sey sates pereeaa 1 5 


Stocks in Terminals 


Total wheat in store, Fort William and 
Port Arthur on June 10 was 3,572,919 
as against 3,994,741 last week, and 
1,897,069 last year. Total shipments 


for the week were 976,936, last year 
512,180. Amount of each grade was: 
1910 1909 

No.d Bard: oy s3ec 82,312 6,511 

No. 1-Nor.......... 1,058,318 705,028 

Nor ® Nore 6 fey 959,492 150,721 

No. 3 Nor. 490,161 293,910 

NOi Be is custeety cai 250,050 199,398 

NOGB ee ies es kets 63,866 128,253 

Other grades’ .... 728,717 418,245 
Stocks of Oats— 

Total eects 3,136,271 1,495,948 
Stocks of Barley — : 

Total ses ake 474,196 52,914 
Stocks of Flax— 

Totals Sees 159,184 704,259 


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Canadian Visible 
(Official to Winnipeg Grain Exchange) 
June 10, 1910. 


Wheat Oats Barley 
Total visible 5,207,287 5,746,798 809,852 
Last week .. 5,961,322 5,846,919 936,253 
Last year .. 3,937,322 2,401,296 353,357 
Ft. William 1,888,929 1,488,684 201,643 
pt. Arthur . 1,481,760 1,474,536 233,477 
Dep. Harbor ......- 6284S oo es 
Meadford . 37,736 6,802 eae. os 
Mid. Tiffan 530,948 658,521 9,605 
Collingwood 8,114 1,529 50,293 
Owen Sd... 142,188 518,924 21,793 
Goderich .. 120,402 256,195 63,782 
Sarnia, Pt. 

Edward . 87,891 66,680 ....... 
Pt. Colborne 19,281 33,037 14,118 
Kingston... 146,588 174,408 105,492 
Montreal... 741,750 963,239 108,849 
Quebec .... 1,700 44,000 800 


World’s Shipments 


Last Week Year 
kh Week Ago Ago 
America.. 1,487,000 2,568,000 1,664,000 
Russia .. 3,792,000 3,512,000 4,608,000 
Danube . 416,000 456,000 168,000 
India ... 1,104,000 1,072,000 2,334,000 
Argentine 554,000 560,000 2,270,000 
Australia 328,000 = 952,000 152,000 
Chili, N.A. 224,000 64,000 48,000 
Corn .... 2,581,000 2,454,000 . 4,794,000 


8,320,000 9,184,000 12,064,000 


Comparative Visible 

Last Week Weekago Year ago 
Wheat. 16,886,000 18,647,000 15,444,000 
Corn .. 6,084,000 5,470,000 2,892,000 
Oats ... 5,949,000 6,726,000 6,930,000 


Chicago Live Stock 
June 13 


Live stock receipts were heavy. Hogs 
opened 15 to 20c. lower with Armour on 
the fence, announcing that he was not 
prepared to pay more than $9.25. Specu- 
lators put on an unnecessary $9.50 top and 
business was on a $9.30 to $9.40 basis. 
Quality was good. Cattle supply was 


heavy at all western markets. The 
local supply included 1,500 Texans. 
Hogs—Receipts, 42,000. Choice heavy 


$9.85 to $9.40; butchers $9.35 to $9.40; 
light mixed $9.30 to $9.35; choice light 
$9.40 to $9.50; heavy packing $9.30 to 
$9.40; good to choice pigs $9.25 to $9.40. 

Cattle—Receipts 25,000. Prime steers 
$8.20 to $8.65: prime beef cows $5.25 
to. $6.50; prime heifers $6.00 to $7.25; 
good to choice calves $8.40 to $9.00; 
selected feeders $6.00 to $6.50. 

Sheep—Receipts 18,000. Good _ to 
choice light lambs $8.40 to $8.85; good to 
choice yearlings $6.50 to $7.50; good to 
choice wethers $5.90 to $6.15; spring 
lambs $8.75 to $9.75. 


- Toronto Live Stock 
June 13 


Union Stock Yards—Prices were again 
on the top grade at this market today, 
export cattle being fully 25c. higher than 
a week ago today. There were several 
loads of extra choice quality: export cattle 
on the market and prices for these ran 
up to $7.85, while there were quite a few 
sales of average good leads of export at 
$7.40 and $7.50. Medium and light 
export cattle were very firm at $7 to $7.25 
and the actual demand for exporters 
gave strong tone to butchers market, 
though the offerings in this class included 
some that were anything but choice 
quality. Everything however appeared 
to be in demand and prices are getting 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’| GUIDE 


Winnipeg Live Stock 


Stockyard Receipts . 
Wees Enpine June 11. 
Carrie Hocs SHEEP 


CEPI Reve ee ee 1065 1941 288 
CoN Ree ee eas 265 627 81 
Motel 6 Oe ecw s 1330 | 2568 319 
Disposition 

Exporters east from last week .....+-- 18 
Exporters east this week ......-.+--- 258 
Butchers east this week .......-.+++- 115 
Feeders east ...... 0.00 eee reer 137 
Stockers west ...... 00sec eee ee eee 125 
Butchers held over ......--0-0008005 17 
678 


Consumed locally d 

The run of all kinds of stock during 
the past week was heavier than for some 
time. Demand was good for everything 
but the veriest scrubs, but even these were 
sold and practically nothing remained 
in the pens at the close of each day’s 
market. . Wednesday’s run was the heavi- 
est of the week when 471 cattle and 1009 
hogs arrived, However the large run 
did not have any effect on prices and the 
whole lot were cleaned up in short order 
at high prices. 


Cattle 
Receipts of cattle at the Winnipeg 
stock yards were 206 head greater than 
the previous week, the figures being 1330 
against 1124. Some very good stock 


_ arrived while some was of very poor quali- 
were mostly poorly--, 


ty. The latter 
finished grassers and well bore out the 
statements made last week that it is 
entirely too early to think of shipping 
stuff off the grass. While the grass is 
in good shape now and was in the early 
spring the untoward weather of the inter- 
vening months kept it back so that it 
was of little use for putting weight on the 
cattle. Cattle off the range should come 
in good quality by the first of next month 
but it is hardly probable that they can 
be well finished at an earlier date. 

There was a good steady active market 
on all classes of good killing stock during 
the week as evidenced by the fact that as 
high as $6.50 per ewt. was paid for several 


bunches of good butcher stock. The class _ 


shown by butchers was a pleasant sur- 
prize to dealers as they were of the opinion 
that most of the good stuff in the country 
had been previously shippéd and that no 
more would be coming until the good 
grassers arrived. : 

There were a few fairly decent grassers 
among Wednesday’s run but they were 
among the minority and sold quite a bit 
below the fed stuff. However, the de- 
mand for everything was good and all 
receipts were cleaned up. 

More cattle of export quality than have 
been seen in some weeks were receive 
and 258 head were sent forward, the 
demand being good and excellent prices 
ruling. Dealers look upon this as the 
last heavy run of exporters until the grass- 
ers are in first rate shape. One hundred 
and fifteen head of first class butchers 
went east during the week. 

Eastern. traders succeeded in buying 
more feeders than they have in most 
previous weeks. Demand is strong for 
this class of stock and all that arrive 
are quickly taken at prices up to $4.75 
per cwt, The run has at all times been 
smaller than during previous springs. 
Calves are coming more freely and the 
best sell up to $6.00 per cwt. 


Cattle prices quoted are: 
Choice export steers (point 


of shipment) .......... $5.75 to $6.25 
Good export steers (point 

of shipment) .......... 5.25 “ 5.75 
Choice export heifers (point 

of shipment) .......... 5.25 “ §.75 
Choice butcher steers: and 

HewWers ee ls os 5.75 “ 6.75 


Fair to good steers and 


heifers fee. e lee ees .00 “ §.50 
Common steers and heifers 3.00 “ 4.50 
Best fat cows ........0665 4.00 “ §.00 
Fairto goodcows ....... 3.50 “ 4,00 
Commoncows ....... ... 2.60 “ 8.50 
Best bulls 22... .556 68. os 4.50 “ 5.00 
Common bulls .......... 3.50 “ 4.50 
Best stockers and feeders, 

800 to 1000 lbs. weight .. 4.00 “ 4.50 
Fair to good stockers and 

feeders... fy. ccee ew eres 3.00 “ 4,00 
Choice calves ........--- 5.00 “ 5.75 
Medium and heavy weight 

calves .......-- .... 4.00 “ 5.00 


Hogs 

Hog receipts showed an increase of 777 
head, the total for the week being 2,568, 
against 1,791 the previous week. In 
spite of the heavy run prices were as strong 
as ever and the bulk sold for $10.75 to 
$10.85. Buyers are showing more inclina- 
tion to grade the shipments and it takes 
good animals to catch the latter figure. 
However, most that approach bacon 
quality sell at the former figure and above. 
‘There is a marked decrease in the receipts 
of light pigs and brood sows. This is as 
it should be. Not a single unfinished pig 
or a good sow should be sent to market 
as the light ones can hardly bring above 
$10.50 and the sows sell as low as $9.00. 
Besides losing money on the sows the 
farmer loses a part of his principal that 
he will find it hard to make up. 


Hog prices quoted are: 


Choice hogs ......-. $10.75 to $10.85 
Heavy sows (over 300 lbs) 9.00 “9.75 
Stags. «ies sede By 7.25 “ 8.25 


Sheep and Lambs 


There are hardly enough sheep and 
ambs arriving to make a market. Spring 
lambs are quoted from $7.00 to $9.00 and 
sheep from $5.50 to $6.50. 


Country Produce 
Butter 


Dairy butter is now coming freely and 
there has been a drop of two cents per 
pound in the price paid f.o.b. Winnipeg, 
seventeen to eighteen cents being allowed 
for No. 1 product. The quality of a 
good lot of the butter shows a great 
improvement over last year or any other 
year, but there is still a lot of poor stock 
coming. Ina great many cases the butter 
is all right on the start but is not properly 
packed. In no case should butter be 
shipped in bricks during the warm weather 
as in such form it is impossible to bring 
it to market in anything near decent 
shape. . 

Tubs should be used. and shippers 
should exercise great care that the tubs 
are absolutely clean. It is best to use 
none but new receptacles. 

The grass is now in better shape than 
ever and there is little excuse for a low 
grade butter, but still-a lot is coming that 
will in no wise compare with the Ontario 
product. There is as yet no great 
export demand, the largest shipment 
from Winnipeg having been” the two 
cars mentioned last week. The local 
trade is good. Most of the stuff is taken 
by wholesalers who are accumulating 
stocks to care for the fall and winter 
trade. ‘They will store only the best of 
the make, so it is probable that the spread 
between No. 1 and No. 2 will become 
larger than it is. Retailers were taking 
quite a bunch from their regular shippers 
in the country, but have now advised 
their shippers to discontinue until at 
least the tirst part of September. 

Some of the receipts show that the 
cream has not been given proper care and 
many shipments have a cellar flavor. 
Absolute cleanliness should be observed 
in the handling of the milk and cream, 
Pails and separators should be kept 
clean, and always thoroughly washed 
before use. It is the little things that 
count in making butter, and failure to 


June 15th, 1910 


observe any one of the small details 
may result in a loss of a couple cents per 
pound, Prices quoted are: 


No. 1 Dairy ........17¢. to 18¢e. 
No. 2 Dairy ....0..... 14c. to 16c. 


As usual there is little demand for the 
early June makes of Manitoba cheese, 
and prices have taken a slump. Dealers 
are now quoting 9 to 10 cents per pound. 
At this season of the year the best trade 
demands Ontario cheese and there is but 
little demand either locally or in the 
West for the Manitoba product. Quality 
is commencing to show an improvement. 

Eggs 

Receipts of eggs are growing larger, 
but a great deal of the stock is not of a 
very high quality. A large number of 
the shipments show high shrinkage, 
chiefly due to the fact that they are held 
too long at country points. It cannot be 
emphasized too strongly that eggs should 
be shipped as soon after gathering as possi- 
ble. Where itis practicable they should be 
sent in twice a week, and in no case should 
they be held over a week. Another 
thing that is knocking a cent a dozen and 
more off some shipments is the lack of 
care in packing. Cases are not clean and 
many times the fillers are damp. Cases 
and fillers must be dry and free from smell 
or the eggs will go on the market in poor 
condition. Strong smelling cases cannot 
be put up to the best trade and so are 
discounted in purchasing. Dealers are 
quoting 17} to 18} cents per dozen, f.0.b. 
Winnipeg, subject to candling. Eggs 
must show practically no shrinkage to 
catcg the highest price. , 

Vegetables 

There is no change in the vegetable 
market. There is no demand for any but 
the very best kept potatoes, There is 
a fait demand for well kept carrots and 
turnips. 


Hides, Tallow and Wool 


By McMitian Fur anp Woot Co. 


Green salted hides, unbranded. .9c. to 8c. 
Green salted hides, branded....7}c. fla 
Green salted hides, bulls and oxen..7c. flat 
Green salted veal calf, 8-15 lbs... .. lde. 
Green salted kip, 15-25 lbs..... 9 to 8c. 


Green salted deacons ............ 65c. 
Green salted slunks ............04. 25e. 
Dry flint butcher hides.......... 16c. flat 
Dry rough and fallen hides...... lle. flat 
Tallow ..0 wc cece need Cesare 5e. to 4c. 
Seneca root ..... Siow avers ....-30c. to 32¢ 
Wool oo vo cv elvecdy eres 8c. to 94e. 


These prices are f.o.b. Winnipeg. 


Montreal Live Stock 
JuNE 18 


About 750 head of butcher’s cattle, 
300 calves, 75 sheep and lambs, and 928 
hogs were offered at the Montreal stock- 
yards today. Offerings of live stock 
during the week consisted of 3,140 cattle, 
1,600 calves, 275 sheep and lambs, and 
1,675 hogs. Prime cattle were scarce 
and brought firm sales, but the milkmen’s 
strippers and leanish grassers are. still 
declining. ‘Prime beeves sold at Ze. to 
73c. per pound; pretty good animals, 
Sic. to 6fc.; common stock, 3$c. to 5}c. 
pound; milkmen’s strippers, 43c. to 53c. 
per pound. A few large bulls brought 
dic. to 64c. per pound; sheep about 5c. 
per pound; lambs, $4.50 to $6.50 each; 
good lots of hogs 104c. to 10}c. per pound. 


Liverpool Live Stock 
Jung 13 


John Rogers & Co. cable that trade at 
Birkenhead today was slow, but prices 
are well maintained on the short supply 
and there is no reduction on Saturday's 
quotations, viz., Canadians, 15}c. to Ite. 
and fed ranchers 14 to 14} cents. 


QUOTATIONS IN STORE AT FORT WILLIAM FROM JUNE 8 to 14, INCLUSIVE 


almost to be no longer a consideration. 

ae butaber oe mold firm at $6.50 5 WHEAT OATS BARLEY FLAX 

to $7.10, and medium class at $5.75 to ‘ ‘ P + iatpes'ge * 9 

$6.25. Butcher cows firm at $5.00 to A | ie ba 3° 4°. 6°. 6° Feed Bel. Bei. Bet. Be} ia Belt Beja 2ew. Sew. 8 4 Rej. Feed |{1 NW 1 Man. Rej. 
vo bulls ‘ 85.560 ares ss steady UNE) 

to firm at $3.00 to $6.50 each. Sheep k ee 

and lambs steady and unchanged, heavy ; a Hh 34 ee acloverle wer seeniecese| ere] Fe eeleres ee dee eee at oe re aS liad Reon! | [eae Maso baited 
ewes $4.00 to $4. 50, light $5.00 and $5.50 10 90 873 ecerleevelaterlenvclevoee| Seve] eevslesos| coee [eores ta 0 sees leeeeliooee | ores [oreo 
per cwt., spring lambs steady at. $3.00 to 11 894 874 84k se eeleenelesweleseel(snene| seer] sereierer| sees ee he eee 40 ee ee ee ee 
$6.50 each. Hog market steady to firm 18 801 sii $4 wemelecae lee ee lease ennee|] woee| Se eeleese| sane coer aa iP a0 Cs be 
at last week’s quotations, $9.00 f.o.b., ta 90} 88} aa eocelecesiosee(eeetlsoancne| e800] eo erlerue| eoee jooer 3 Pl epee 2 40 eeeeleseet i soee [sees leave 
and $9.35 to $9.40 fed and watered at 0 ee eelese epee eel eee bioegeos| eoav| te eeleres| cree weone 1 a. eee 40 oveceleoeseti an oe | eevee lovve 
Toronto. | 


June 15th, 1910 THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


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GANCES experiments. Over TEN THOUSAND FARM.- 
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The confidence the farmers are placing in THEIR OWN COMPANY is 
shown by the fact that we have handled so far this season about SIXTEEN 
MILLION BUSHELS; one million bushels more than double what} we 
handled all last year. 


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Growers and our interests are your interests. We all have grain to sell and we want it marketed so we 
ean get our own out of it. That is just what you want, so come in and share the safeguards that have 
been provided to protect your interests. 


Don’t Forget The Future 


Don’t be contented with the present. Think of the future. You know the farmer has got from 
$25.00 to $50.00 a car more for every car of grain shipped this year, than he could have got four or five 
years ago before this Company started. This is what has been done, but it is only a promise of what 
can be done if all the farmers will support their own Company in shipping their grain and taking Stock. 

Write us for shipping bills and instructions. ve are always pleased to give you any information 
you require concerning the markets or the grain 

When in the City, don’t fail to call at our officed, 7th Floor, Keewayden Block, Portage Avenue 


East. 
This is YOUR COMPANY. We want you to make use of it. 


GRAIN GROWERS’ GRAIN CO. LIMITED 


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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE 


June 15th, 1910 


THE SATISFACTION OF SATISFAC- 
TORY TELEPHONE SERVICE 


TT telephone is in several respects unlike anything else in the civilized world today; it is at once a 


convenience and a necessity, 


he realized what a telephone meant to him. 
Canada today, all but 9,000 are our make, you will realize the quality 
we must put into our instruments and begin to understand what 


In fact, so much so is this true that let its service be anything but 
absolutely perfect and its user feels its loss in a way he could never have believed possible in days before 


“Northern Electric” Service Means 


HILE “Northern Electric” telephones 

are as near perfection as brains 

backed by years of experience can 
make them, even yet are we trying to 
still further improve our instruments. 
Our newly designed No, 1317 Telephone 
Set—absolutely the most modern farm 
*phone in the whole telephone world— 
represents years of study, an expenditure 
of $10,000 in cash, and months of patient 
experiment and test before we have 
allowed it to go on the market. 

. We now pronounce it perfect—now, firm- 
ly convinced that it is all we have tried 
to make it, we offer it to you, 

Examine it for yourself—or if you are 
not sufficiently well posted on such mat- 
ters, get your own electrical expert to 
give our No, 1317 the severest tests of 
which he knows, 

Take it up point by point. There is the 
transmitter, for instance, the same, stan- 
dard long-distance type that is used on all 
standard long-distance ‘phones. The 
general manager of the biggest. telephone 
company in the world could have no 
better on the private ‘phone he uses on 
his own desk. There is no better made, 
And not only is ours the best transmitter 
but it is also the cheapest in point of 
maintenance; it requires less battery cur- 


rent than any transmitter on the market 
—as little as 1-7 of some of the others, 
Then the receiver on No, 1817 is worthy of 
attention. Here the magnets demand 
consideration; made from a special grade 
of steel, they are permanent—retain their 
full strength indefinitely, And the bell 
pieces are made of special annealed Nor- 
way iron. This receiver is so constructed 
that dust cannot accumulate on the back 
of the diaphragm nor can local noises dis- 
turb the listener and spoil transmission. 
Each part of the receiver on No, 1817 is 
the result of long and careful study— 
throughout, it is the best combination 
possible, , 

Or look at the switch-hook—note how 
compact and self-contained it is,—how all 
contact springs are vertically mounted 
as to afford no resting place for dust and 
other accumulations, 


Our standard self-contained switch-hook 
is netoe tee with platinum points—you 
can understand the efficiency for which 
that makes, : 

And so it goes—through our No, 1817 
every part is the best, and most perfect 
it is possible to devise. Never before has 
it been possible for any manufacturer— 
no, not even for us—to offer such an 
instrument to the Canadian farmer, 


When you remember that out of 259,000 phones in use in 


SEND FOR OUR FREE 
BOOK 


HIS book, Bulletin No.2716, we call it, 
(and that’s what you ask for), not 
only tells you all about our instruments, 
but also tells you all you need to know— 
every detail—about the steps necessary 
to take in the organization ofa rural 
telephone company. It describes the 
simple procedure—goes into it minutely— 
tells about the very small amount of 
capital necessary, explains how to interest 
your neighbors and informs you how 
your own community can have just as 
efficient a telephone service as the larg- 
est city on the continent. Write for it,— 
learn why a telephone on your farm will 
actually save instead of costing you 
money, Send today. 


& 


“NORTHERN ELECTRIC 


AND MANUFACTURING CO. LIMITED 


Manufacturers and suppliers of all apparatus and equipment used in the construction, 
operation and maintenance of Telephone and Power Plants. Address your nearest office, 


MONTREAL TORONTO 
60 Front St. W. 


Cor. Notre Dame and Guy Sts. 


REGINA 


VANCOUVER 
818 Pender St. W. 


WINNIPEG 


699 Henry Ave. 200